how to get files count in a directory using ruby

Question

using ruby how to get number of files in a given Directory,the file count should include count from recursive directories.

Eg: folder1(2 files) -----> folder2(4 files)

Answer 1

Please try:

//we suppose that the variable folder1 is an absolute path here
pattern = File.join(folder1, "**", "*")
count = Dir.glob(pattern).count