Can I traverse symlinked directories in Ruby with a “**” glob?

Question

In Ruby, Dir.glob(\"**/*.rb\") (for instance) doesn\'t traverse symlinked directories. Is it possible to get the ** to traverse symlinks?

Answer 1

Normally not with recursive search due to the risk of infinite loops.

But, this discussion may help:

Dir.glob("**/*/**/b") will follow a symlink up to once.