Re: Newbie query regarding ruby best practice

Welcome to Ruby! Regarding your question, let's use irb try it out...

C:\irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'fileutils'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> fu = FileUtils.new
NoMethodError: undefined method `new' for FileUtils:Module
from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0> quit

Looks like FileUtils isn't a class and doesn't have a .new method. It's
just a module that contains a bunch of handy methods for file
operations.

FileUtils has very good documentation. Use "ri FileUtils" to see it.

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