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Ruby - Permission Denied in Delete or Rename
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:29 pm
by Jonah Bron
Hello, world!
I'm thoroughly stumped.
I have Ruby installed on my dad's computer, and cannot use it to rename or delete files. All other features work well. It only says "Permission Denied".
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Re: Ruby - Permission Denied in Delete or Rename
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:38 pm
by Benjamin
What operating system are you using?
Re: Ruby - Permission Denied in Delete or Rename
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:49 pm
by Jonah Bron
Windows XP. Just discovered that I had it open earlier in the script, and forgot to close it. But, now I am trying to delete a folder, and it is giving me the same problem. It was made with FileUtils.mkdir_p, and then a file was put into it with File.move. I don't think that either of those require you to close the file.
Thanks
Re: Ruby - Permission Denied in Delete or Rename
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:56 pm
by Benjamin
What is the error message?
Re: Ruby - Permission Denied in Delete or Rename
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:14 pm
by Jonah Bron
c:/Program Files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/tk.rb

in `callback': Errno::EACCES: Permission denied - C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\New Folder (Errno::EACCES)
Re: Ruby - Permission Denied in Delete or Rename
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:21 pm
by Benjamin
Interesting. See if this helps, there seems to be numerous solutions and variants of this issue:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&clie ... tnG=Search
Re: Ruby - Permission Denied in Delete or Rename
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:34 pm
by Jonah Bron
Whoa! This post is the fourth result.

Re: Ruby - Permission Denied in Delete or Rename
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:44 pm
by Jonah Bron
Uh-duh! I was trying to use the File class to delete a directory, instead of the Dir class.
Thanks!
Re: Ruby - Permission Denied in Delete or Rename
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:04 pm
by Benjamin
Jonah Bron wrote:Whoa! This post is the fourth result.

Yeah, google is getting pretty quick!