Question

Is there a way to print the current “chmod flags” for a given Dir in Ruby?

I’m not an expert on permissions so forgive the terminology, but I’d like to get all possible information about a directory (is it read-only, what are the permissions, etc etc).

Edit: I need this to work in Ruby 1.8.6

Answer 1

http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/File.html#method-c-world_readable-3F

sprintf("%o", File.world_readable?("/"))

Ruby 1.8.6 solution:

sprintf("%o", File.stat("/").mode) #40755