glob(p1, p2 = v2, p3 = {}) public

Expands pattern, which is a pattern string or an Array of pattern strings, and returns an array containing the matching filenames. If a block is given, calls the block once for each matching filename, passing the filename as a parameter to the block.

The optional base keyword argument specifies the base directory for interpreting relative pathnames instead of the current working directory. As the results are not prefixed with the base directory name in this case, you will need to prepend the base directory name if you want real paths.

Note that the pattern is not a regexp, it’s closer to a shell glob. See File::fnmatch for the meaning of the flags parameter. Case sensitivity depends on your system (File::FNM_CASEFOLD is ignored), as does the order in which the results are returned.

*

Matches any file. Can be restricted by other values in the glob. Equivalent to / .* /mx in regexp.

*

Matches all files

c*

Matches all files beginning with c

*c

Matches all files ending with c

*c*

Match all files that have c in them

(including at the beginning or end).

Note, this will not match Unix-like hidden files (dotfiles). In order to include those in the match results, you must use the File::FNM_DOTMATCH flag or something like “{*,.*}”.

**

Matches directories recursively.

?

Matches any one character. Equivalent to /.{1}/ in regexp.

[set]

Matches any one character in set. Behaves exactly like character sets in Regexp, including set negation ([^a-z]).

{p,q}

Matches either literal p or literal q. Equivalent to pattern alternation in regexp.

Matching literals may be more than one character in length. More than two literals may be specified.

\

Escapes the next metacharacter.

Note that this means you cannot use backslash on windows as part of a glob, i.e. Dir[“c:\foo*”] will not work, use Dir[“c:/foo*”] instead.

Examples:

Dir["config.?"]                     #=> ["config.h"]
Dir.glob("config.?")                #=> ["config.h"]
Dir.glob("*.[a-z][a-z]")            #=> ["main.rb"]
Dir.glob("*.[^r]*")                 #=> ["config.h"]
Dir.glob("*.{rb,h}")                #=> ["main.rb", "config.h"]
Dir.glob("*")                       #=> ["config.h", "main.rb"]
Dir.glob("*", File::FNM_DOTMATCH)   #=> [".", "..", "config.h", "main.rb"]
Dir.glob(["*.rb", "*.h"])           #=> ["main.rb", "config.h"]

rbfiles = File.join("**", "*.rb")
Dir.glob(rbfiles)                   #=> ["main.rb",
                                    #    "lib/song.rb",
                                    #    "lib/song/karaoke.rb"]

Dir.glob(rbfiles, base: "lib")      #=> ["song.rb",
                                    #    "song/karaoke.rb"]

libdirs = File.join("**", "lib")
Dir.glob(libdirs)                   #=> ["lib"]

librbfiles = File.join("**", "lib", "**", "*.rb")
Dir.glob(librbfiles)                #=> ["lib/song.rb",
                                    #    "lib/song/karaoke.rb"]

librbfiles = File.join("**", "lib", "*.rb")
Dir.glob(librbfiles)                #=> ["lib/song.rb"]
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October 20, 2009
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Getting relative path from absolute globbing

Say you want to scan for files in directory base_dir and you want to use the relative path from this base dir, you could do it like this:

base_dir = '/path/to/dir'
files = Dir[File.join(base_dir, '**', '*.yml')]

# files now contain absolute paths:
files.first # => "/path/to/dir/foo/bar.yml"

# let's make them relative
base_pathname = Pathname.new(base_dir)
files = files.collect do |file|
  Pathname.new(file).relative_path_from(base_pathname)
end

files.first # => "foo/bar.yml"

Of course, a more common use-case could be the following:

def scan_for_documents!
  base_path = Pathname.new(self.base_path)
  self.contained_files = []
  Dir[File.join(self.base_path, '**', '*.pdf')].each do |full_path|
    path = Pathname.new(full_path).relative_path_from(base_path)
    self.contained_files << path
  end
end
August 19, 2011
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Alternative way to show relative paths from absolute globbing

An alternative to show relative paths is using the well known String#sub! method

base_dir = File.expand_path("my_dir") << "/" # don't miss adding "/"
files = Dir[File.join(base_dir, '**', '*.html.gz')]
p files.map {|f| f.sub!(base_dir,"")}
May 2, 2017
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And yet another way to get relative path from absolute globbing

If you execute glob within a block passed to Dir.chdir, you get the paths relative to the directory specified by Dir.chdir… like this…

base_dir = '/path/to/dir'
files = Dir.chdir(base_dir) do
  Dir.glob("**/*.yml")
end
files.first # => 'foo/bar.yml'
June 28, 2017
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Faker Gem: Fake Data Generation in Ruby

Gems are libraries in Rails that generally enable you to write the application code faster and thereby making a great product in far lesser time. Usually, whenever we start developing any application, there comes a point when we need data which we can use to see how the application will behave while doing some load testing or how it would look when we deploy it to the production. The manual process of creating the data can be daunting. Faker gem serves to take this pain away by generating the fake data just as needed and saving us all the time and effort otherwise wasted in the manual process of data-generation.

It can generate almost any kind of data suitable for our application. For example, it can generate the fake data for fields such as name, email, passwords, phone-numbers, paragraphs, etc. It is therefore, an awesome way of populating the model (which is a database layer in Rails)

Let’s take a look at this gem by creating a sample project. Read More: http://www.railscarma.com/blog/technical-articles/faker-gem-fake-data-generation-ruby/

June 4, 2018 - (v1_9_3_392)
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Urlify Functions & Its Implementation

URLify is a simple gem that refines the conversion of UTF-8 strings to ASCII-safe URI strings and enables it to be used as readable URL-segments. After the gem is installed, you can call the URLify function for any UTF-8 string and it will be automatically converted into an ASCII-safe URI string. URLify also has the additional functionality of being able to remove the subtitles in a given input. ACCENTMAP

‘À’ => ‘A’,
‘Á’ => ‘A’,
‘Â’ => ‘A’,
‘Ã’ => ‘A’,
‘Ä’ => ‘A’,
‘Å’ => ‘AA’,
‘Æ’ => ‘AE’,
‘Ç’ => ‘C’,
‘È’ => ‘E’,
‘É’ => ‘E’,
‘Ê’ => ‘E’,
‘Ë’ => ‘E’,
‘Ì’ => ‘I’,
‘Í’ => ‘I’,
‘Î’ => ‘I’,
‘Ï’ => ‘I’,
‘Ð’ => ‘D’,
‘Ł’ => ‘L’,
‘Ñ’ => ‘N’,
‘Ò’ => ‘O’,
‘Ó’ => ‘O’,
‘Ô’ => ‘O’,
‘Õ’ => ‘O’,
‘Ö’ => ‘O’,
‘Ø’ => ‘OE’,
‘Ù’ => ‘U’,
‘Ú’ => ‘U’,
‘Ü’ => ‘U’,
‘Û’ => ‘U’,
‘Ý’ => ‘Y’,
‘Þ’ => ‘Th’,
‘ß’ => ‘ss’,
‘à’ => ‘a’,
‘á’ => ‘a’,
‘â’ => ‘a’,
‘ã’ => ‘a’,
‘ä’ => ‘a’,
‘å’ => ‘aa’,
‘æ’ => ‘ae’,
‘ç’ => ‘c’,
‘è’ => ‘e’,
‘é’ => ‘e’,
‘ê’ => ‘e’,
‘ë’ => ‘e’,
‘ì’ => ‘i’,
‘í’ => ‘i’,
‘î’ => ‘i’,
‘ï’ => ‘i’,
‘ð’ => ‘d’,
‘ł’ => ‘l’,
‘ñ’ => ‘n’,
‘ń’ => ‘n’,
‘ò’ => ‘o’,
‘ó’ => ‘o’,
‘ô’ => ‘o’,
‘õ’ => ‘o’,
‘ō’ => ‘o’,
‘ö’ => ‘o’,
‘ø’ => ‘oe’,
‘ś’ => ‘s’,
‘ù’ => ‘u’,
‘ú’ => ‘u’,
‘û’ => ‘u’,
‘ū’ => ‘u’,
‘ü’ => ‘u’,
‘ý’ => ‘y’,
‘þ’ => ‘th’,
‘ÿ’ => ‘y’,
‘ż’ => ‘z’,
‘Œ’ => ‘OE’,
‘œ’ => ‘oe’,
‘&’ => ‘and’

Easy Steps To Implement URLify Gem

Go to the Gemfile and add the gem urlify
Run the command bundle install

OR In the terminal, run the command gem install urlify A Demo Of Implementation Of URLify

Here is an example of URLify functionality:

Add gem urlify in your Gemfile
Run bundle install

Read More From Here http://www.railscarma.com/blog/technical-articles/urlify-functions-implementation/