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My First Ruby Program

Following is my first serious program in Ruby. This searches for the given file name under a directory tree.

# This program will search for a filename in a given path
class FileSearch
attr_accessor :path, :pattern
def initialize (path, pattern)
  @path = path
  @pattern = pattern
end
def search(dirName=@path)
  begin
    dir = Dir.new(dirName)
    rescue
    return
  end
  dir.entries.each do
    |entry|
    puts entry if entry.upcase.match(@pattern)
    absPath = dirName+"/"+entry
    search(absPath) if (File.stat(absPath).directory? && !entry.match("^[.]"))
   end
end
end
search = FileSearch.new("d:/ruby","RESUME")
search.search