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instance method

Pathname#parent

parent

ext/pathname/lib/pathname.rb View on GitHub ↗

# File tmp/rubies/ruby-3.2.0/ext/pathname/lib/pathname.rb, line 194
def parent
  self + '..'
end

Returns the parent directory.

This is same as self + '..'.

See also #owned? #pipe? #opendir #read also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.1 · 3.0