This gem is no longer needed in Ruby 2.5+, as Ruby already implements this method.

Implements a much needed Pathname#glob method.

To install run gem install pathname-glob, and then require "pathname-glob" in your code.

It supports similar interface to Dir.glob and Pathname::glob.

Pathname("foo").glob("*.txt")
Pathname("foo").glob("*.txt", File::FNM_DOTMATCH)
Pathname("foo").glob(["*.txt", "*.html"])
Pathname("foo").glob("*.txt") do |path|
  # yields Pathname objects
end # returns nil

For simple case these are equivalent:

Pathname("/foo/bar").glob("*.txt")
Pathname.glob("/foo/bar/*.txt")
Dir.glob("/foo/bar/*.txt").map{|path| Pathname(path)}

However in addition to greater convenience, Pathname#glob is the only one that can handle special characters in folder name:

Pathname("very*special*folder/{real} [special] ? yes!").glob("*.txt")

Dir.glob and Pathname.glob inherently can't as they don't know where folder name ends and pattern begins.

If you're dealing with user data, running into special characters like that is pretty much guaranteed.