How to check if a given directory exists in Ruby

Question

I am trying to write a script which automatically checks out or updates a Subversion URL based on whether a specified directory exists or not.

For some reason, my co

Answer 1

You could use Kernel#test:

test ?d, 'some directory'

it gets it's origins from https://ss64.com/bash/test.html you will notice bash test has this flag -d to test if a directory exists -d file True if file is a Directory. [[ -d demofile ]]