method

realpath

v1_9_1_378 - Show latest stable - Class: Pathname

realpath()

public

Returns a real (absolute) pathname of self in the actual filesystem. The real pathname doesn’t contain symlinks or useless dots.

No arguments should be given; the old behaviour is obsoleted.

# File lib/pathname.rb, line 478
  def realpath
    path = @path
    prefix, names = split_names(path)
    if prefix == ''
      prefix, names2 = split_names(Dir.pwd)
      names = names2 + names
    end
    prefix, *names = realpath_rec(prefix, names, {})
    self.class.new(prepend_prefix(prefix, File.join(*names)))
  end

1Note

Will raise error on broken symlink

Mange · Nov 7, 2010

This method will raise Errno::ENOENT on a broken symlink. You should probably rescue it every time you call this method.

realpath

1Note

Will raise error on broken symlink

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