How do I move a file with Ruby?

Question

I want to move a file with Ruby. How do I do that?

Answer 1

here is a template .

 src_dir = "/full_path/to_some/ex_file.txt"

 dst_dir = "/full_path/target_dir"

 #Use the method below to do the moving
 move_src_to_target_dir(src_dir, dst_dir)



 def archive_src_to_dst_dir(src_dir, dst_dir)

     if File.exist ? (src_dir)

     puts "about to move this file:  #{src_dir}"

     FileUtils.mv(src_dir, dst_dir)
 else

     puts "can not find source file to move"

 end
 end

Answer 2

You can use FileUtils to do this.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'fileutils'

FileUtils.mv('/tmp/your_file', '/opt/new/location/your_file')

Remember; if you are moving across partitions, "mv" will copy the file to new destination and unlink the source path.

Answer 3

An old question, i'm surprised no one answered this simple solution. You don't need fileutils or a systemcall, just rename the file to the new location.

File.rename source_path, target_path

Happy coding

Answer 4

FileUtils.move

require "FileUtils"
FileUtils.move 'stuff.rb', '/notexist/lib/ruby'

Answer 5

you can move your file like this

Rails.root.join('foo','bar')

Answer 6

Use the module 'fileutils' and use FileUtils.mv:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/fileutils/rdoc/FileUtils.html#method-c-mv