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by Daniel Berger.
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If you want to create a directory in Ruby you do this:
Dir.mkdir("foo")
What if "foo" already exists? An error occurs. You could resort to this:
Dir.mkdir("foo") unless File.exists?("foo")
That's rather longwinded. Since 99.9% of the time the only reason for Dir.mkdir to fail is that the directory already exists wouldn't it be nice to just ignore this error? Yup:
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