Ruby -FileUtils creating a directory ,permission denied issue on windows

Question

Am writing a script which creates a directory but when i tried (Ruby script running on windows)

destination = "path to the folder"

FileUtils.mkdir_p destination

it gives me an error saying Permission Denied (Errno::EACCES) at mkdir_p

Any help is appreciated . Thank you

Yes, I have given all the permissions , i redone everything from scratch but still that issue persists, looks like that has something to do with the code and how am writing but am not sure — meher

Damián Rafael Lattenero Damián Rafael Lattenero · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-08T23:17:15

open your cmd terminal with administrator privileges, and then run the script again. It seems like your folder is in a place that need admin privileges, so you can create it. Also add it to your script:

require 'win32ole'

shell = WIN32OLE.new('Shell.Application')
shell.ShellExecute('path_to_ruby_program', nil, nil, 'runas')

And see this two questions:

Run ruby script in elevated mode

Detect if running with administrator privileges under Windows XP

Ruby -FileUtils creating a directory ,permission denied issue on windows

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