Path parsing library, for Ruby

• Introduction
• Installation
• Components
• Examples
• Project Information
  • Where to get help
  • Contribution guidelines
  • Dependencies
    • Efferent (fan-out)
      • Runtime Dependencies (aka "Normal Dependencies")
      • Development Dependencies
    • Afferent (fan-in)
      • Runtime dependents
      • Development dependents
  • Related projects
  • License

libpath is a path-parsing and utility library. It is concerned entirely with paths, as opposed to file-system entities.

The first libpath library was a C library with a C++ wrapper. There have been several implementations in other languages. libpath.Ruby is the Ruby version.

Install via gem as in:

gem install libpath-ruby

or add it to your Gemfile.

Use via require, as in:

require 'libpath'

The main components of libpath.Ruby are:

• LibPath::Form — path-form classification and probes (classify_path, path_is_absolute?, path_is_homed?, path_is_rooted?, name_is_malformed?);
• LibPath::Path::ParsedPath — structured parse of a path string into directory / file / search-relative attributes (platform-selected Unix or Windows implementation);
• LibPath::Util — path combination and rewriting (combine_paths, derive_relative_path, make_compare_path, make_path_absolute, make_path_canonical);
• LibPath::Constants — platform path-name / path / shell character constants;
• LibPath::Exceptions — path-related exceptions such as MalformedNameException;

Platform-specific details live under ::Unix / ::Windows submodules; the top-level Form, Path, and Util modules select the ambient OS automatically.

Examples are provided in the examples directory, along with a markdown description for each. A detailed list TOC of them is provided in EXAMPLES.md.

GitHub Page

Defect reports, feature requests, and pull requests are welcome on https://github.com/synesissoftware/libpath.Ruby.

Libraries upon which libpath.Ruby depends:

• <none>;

• rake;
• test-unit;
• xqsr3;

Projects that depend on libpath.Ruby:

• <none>;

NOTE: recls.Ruby version 3+ is planned to depend on libpath.Ruby (it currently has its own path-parsing logic).

• <none>;

• libpath (C/C++);
• libpath.Go;
• libpath.Python;
• libpath.Rust;

libpath.Ruby is based on the C/C++ libpath library, which itself was prompted by a request on the STLSoft project by my friend and esteemed programmer Adi Shavit.

libpath.Ruby is released under the 3-clause BSD license. See LICENSE for details.