On Ruby, '/' and '\' function identically, presumably due to normalization underneath. File.join(too_long_identifier, some_other_long_identifier).gsub('/',

On Ruby, '/' and '\' function identically, presumably due to normalization underneath. File.join(too_long_identifier, some_other_long_identifier).gsub('/', '\\') is often useless and nauseating to read when "#{dir}/#{filename}" is portable enough for most of Ruby's File APIs.