Tempfile generation with different pattern

Question

I'm creating a Tempfile like this

Tempfile.new("myfile.txt")

This creates a file like this

TempDir/myfile.txt20120210-1696-yd53si

but I need it to create it like this

TempDir/20120210-1696-yd53si/myfile.txt

How to do that?

Answer 1

Looks like you want a tmpdir, not a tmpfile.

require 'tmpdir'
puts Dir.mktmpdir('') #the empty string means : no prefix
#=>"/tmp/20120210-9462-kzrkxx"