How do I move a file with Ruby?

Question

You can use FileUtils to do this.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'fileutils'

FileUtils.mv('/tmp/your_file', '/opt/new/location/your_file')

Remember; if you are moving across partitions, "mv" will copy the file to new destination and unlink the source path.

An old question, i'm surprised no one answered this simple solution. You don't need fileutils or a systemcall, just rename the file to the new location.

File.rename source_path, target_path

Happy coding

FileUtils.move

require 'fileutils'
FileUtils.move 'stuff.rb', '/notexist/lib/ruby'

Use the module 'fileutils' and use FileUtils.mv:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/fileutils/rdoc/FileUtils.html#method-c-mv

here is a template .

 src_dir = "/full_path/to_some/ex_file.txt"

 dst_dir = "/full_path/target_dir"

 #Use the method below to do the moving
 move_src_to_target_dir(src_dir, dst_dir)



 def archive_src_to_dst_dir(src_dir, dst_dir)

     if File.exist ? (src_dir)

     puts "about to move this file:  #{src_dir}"

     FileUtils.mv(src_dir, dst_dir)
 else

     puts "can not find source file to move"

 end
 end