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Re: adding directory location to my file output script

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On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:04:35 -0700 (PDT), crossanpdx@gmail.com wrote
in <f5075c06-b7f2-4cd3-a40c-906547bdc120@googlegroups.com>:

> Below is my script which create me a html file called pickle.html
> and then when ran again, it checks if exists and if so appends to
> the file and creates new one.
> 
> I need to tell the script where I want to the html file to go to.
> 
> I run this from the working directory and in the same directory is
> a folder called 'logs' so I would like all the pickle.html files
> to go to logs.

[snip]

>require 'date'
>
>file, new_file = 'pickle.html', DateTime.now.strftime('%s')

How about:

file, new_file = 'logs/pickle.html', DateTime.now.strftime('%s')

>if File.exists?('file')

Why are you enclosing file in quotation marks?  That's a string
literal, not a variable name.

>  File.rename('file', "pickle_#{new_file}.html")

File.rename(file, "logs/pickle_#{new_file}.html")

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adding directory location to my file output script crossanpdx@gmail.com - 2012-10-10 13:04 -0700
  Re: adding directory location to my file output script Charles Calvert <cbciv@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-10 21:41 -0400
    Re: adding directory location to my file output script Ryan Crossan <crossanpdx@gmail.com> - 2012-10-11 06:32 -0700

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