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title: "Temp Dir With Ruby"
description: "Played around with few programming languages to handle temp dirs, but amongst the lot /me really liked ruby’s paradigm in JS."
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# Temp Dir With Ruby

> Played around with few programming languages to handle temp dirs, but amongst the lot /me really liked ruby’s paradigm in JS.

Played around with few programming languages to handle temp dirs, but amongst the lot /me really liked ruby's paradigm.

**Mainly liked :**

  * yield for the win!

  * Easy maintenance of code.

  * Temp dir removal is assured.

**Code to manage temp dir :**

def in_tmp path = File.expand_path "#{Dir.tmpdir}/#{Time.now.to_i}#{rand(1000)}/" FileUtils.mkdir_p( path ) yield( path ) ensure # This ensures temp dir removal. FileUtils.rm_rf( path ) if File.exists?( path ) end

The above method can be used as :

in_tmp do |tmpdir| puts "In tmp dir: #{tmpdir}" end 

This code was improved with the help of a few hackers at #ruby, anyway there might be better ways to do this, do suggest your way below! Happy Hacking.