Here is an extension to Ruby’s File class to allow you to search for all files below a specific folder.

  class File 
    begin
      def self.find(dir, filename="*.*", subdirs=true) 
        Dir[ subdirs ? File.join(dir.split(/\\/), "**", filename) : File.join(dir.split(/\\/), filename)  ].select { |x| File.file?(x) } 
      end
    end
  end

Ruby is amazing that you can Monkey Patch code. Having just started with Ruby yesterday, and I’m sure I’ll find a better to do this in the future, but for now, this is the best I have. This started from a simple script. Notice the little juice at the end that only returns “real files” according to the File API, now it behaves nicely.

sqlfiles = File.find(Dir.pwd, "*.sql")