Ruby deleting directories

Question

I'm trying to delete a non-empty directory in Ruby and no matter which way I go about it it refuses to work. I have tried using FileUtils, system calls, recursively going into the given directory and deleting everything, but always seem to end up with (temporary?) files such as

.__afsECFC
.__afs73B9

Anyone know why this is happening and how I can go around it?

Answer 1

require 'fileutils'  FileUtils.rm_rf('directorypath/name') 

Doesn't this work?

Answer 2

Safe method: FileUtils.remove_dir(somedir)