Does Ruby have mkdir -p?

Question

Possible duplicate:
How to create catalogs recursively in ruby?

In Ruby, how can I do:

mkdir -p cool/beans 

• Here is what I came up with:

   Dir.mkdir('cool') unless File.directory?('cool') cool_beans_path = File.join('cool', 'beans') Dir.mkdir(cool_beans_path) unless File.directory?(cool_beans_path) 

  But is there a better way?

• I know I could:

   system('mkdir', '-p', File.join('cool', 'beans')) 

  But it is not platform independent, is it? For example, it works on a Mac, but not on Windows, right?

Answer 1

 require 'fileutils' FileUtils.mkdir_p 'cool/beans'