method

rmdir

v1_9_2_180 - Show latest stable - Class: Dir

rmdir(p1)

public

Deletes the named directory. Raises a subclass of SystemCallError if the directory isn’t empty.

static VALUE
dir_s_rmdir(VALUE obj, VALUE dir)
{
    check_dirname(&dir);
    dir = rb_str_encode_ospath(dir);
    if (rmdir(RSTRING_PTR(dir)) < 0)
        rb_sys_fail(RSTRING_PTR(dir));

    return INT2FIX(0);
}

1Note

Remove non empty directories

emime · Apr 22, 2011

To remove a non empty directory use FileUtils:

Dir.mkdir("test_dir") Dir.mkdir("test_dir/sub_dir") FileUtils.remove_dir("test_dir",true)

rmdir

1Note

Remove non empty directories

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