Create Directory if it doesn't exist with Ruby

Solution 1:

You are probably trying to create nested directories. Assuming foo does not exist, you will receive no such file or directory error for:

Dir.mkdir 'foo/bar'
# => Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - 'foo/bar'

To create nested directories at once, FileUtils is needed:

require 'fileutils'
FileUtils.mkdir_p 'foo/bar'
# => ["foo/bar"]

Edit2: you do not have to use FileUtils, you may do system call (update from @mu is too short comment):

> system 'mkdir', '-p', 'foo/bar' # worse version: system 'mkdir -p "foo/bar"'
=> true

But that seems (at least to me) as worse approach as you are using external 'tool' which may be unavailable on some systems (although I can hardly imagine system without mkdir, but who knows).

Solution 2:

Simple way:

directory_name = "name"
Dir.mkdir(directory_name) unless File.exists?(directory_name)

Solution 3:

Another simple way:

Dir.mkdir('tmp/excel') unless Dir.exist?('tmp/excel')