Pathutil tries to be a faster pure Ruby impelementation of Pathname. It arose out of a need to fix basic problems with Pathname, such as suscepetibility to join overrides, need for automatic encoding, and normalization (for stuff like Jekyll) and the ability to do other safe-style operations in an encapsulated format, like copying files and folders with symlinks but only if they originate from the given root.

• encoding, encoding= - Set the read/write encoding.
• normalize - crlf => lf (read), lf => crlf (write).
• !~, =~ - Regexp operations on the path, behaves normally.
• search_backwards - Allows you to search backwards for a file or folder.
• >=, > - Check if a file is in but ahead of a path: Pathutil.new("/tmp/hello") > "/tmp" # => true
• in_path? - Check if a file is within a given path: Pathutil.new("/tmp/hello").in_path?("/tmp") # => true
• <=, < - Check if a file is in but below a path: Pathutil.new("/tmp") < "/tmp/hello" # => true
• read_yaml - a wrapper around Yaml.safe_load and SafeYAML to make reading YAML easy.
• children - behaves like Pathname, except it accepts a block to work on the path.
• safe_copy - Copy files, disallowing symlinks unless in_path?
• enforce_root - Force a root if not already in that root.
• read_yaml - Read YAML with or without safe.
• unlink - Behaves like File.

touch, rm_r, link, symlink, cp_r, rm, cp, rm_rf, first (alias of dirname), shellescape, to_regexp, chdir, glob (does chdir first), gsub (works on @path), chomp (works on @path), mkdir_p, to_str (alias of to_s), to_a (alias of children), regexp_escape, last (alias of basename), to_pathname, split_path, read_json, rm_f

Pathutil has and responds to all methods that Pathname provides and forwards them where they need to go with wrappers if necessary and with our @path as the first argumement on our behalf. It is a true encapsulator with a few extra helpers to make your life easy.

relative_path_from, touch, mkpath, rmtree, rm_r, sub_ext, directory?, exist?, opendir, readable?, readable_real?, world_readable?, writable?, writable_real?, world_writable?, executable?, executable_real?, file?, size?, owned?, grpowned?, pipe?, symlink?, socket?, blockdev?, chardev?, setuid?, setgid?, sticky?, stat, lstat, ftype, atime, mtime, ctime, birthtime, utime, chmod, chown, lchmod, lchown, link, symlink, readlink, truncate, rename, find, unlink, expand_path, normalize, realpath, <, basename, >, realdirpath, extname, dirname, cp_r, rm, zero?, make_link, cp, rm_rf, entries, /, +, make_symlink, first, to_path, each_entry, shellescape, to_regexp, chdir, mkdir, rmdir, glob, fnmatch?, <=, >=, fnmatch, split, read, write, sub, gsub, chomp, mkdir_p, open, readlines, delete, size, each_line, sysopen, encoding, binwrite, binread, to_str, to_a, split_path, to_pathname, read_yaml, read_json, in_path?, regexp_escape, enforce_root, parent, safe_copy, root?, absolute?, relative?, each_filename, descend, last, ascend, join, encoding=, mountpoint?, children, each_child, rm_f