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Ruby Ruby Foundations Ruby Standard Library FileUtils

Posted by mv
mv
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Name Error for FileUtils

NameError: uninitialized constant FileUtils from (irb):5 from /home/veeni/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/bin/irb:11:in <main>' irb(main):006:0> FileUtils.mkdir_p(here + '/stuff') NameError: uninitialized constant FileUtils from (irb):6 from /home/veeni/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/bin/irb:11:in<main>'

2 Answers

Kyle Daugherty
Kyle Daugherty
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Kyle Daugherty
Kyle Daugherty
16,441 Points

While in irb, did you require the library first by calling require 'fileutils'

mv
mv
3,664 Points
mv
mv
3,664 Points

Thank you, forgot that part.