Windows, Ruby and long file paths

Over the past few months, we've had a long-standing issue related to Puppet on Windows resurface (puppetlabs/Puppet.Dsc#144). More specifically, Puppet modules with long file paths could not be installed on Windows due to a limitation in the Windows operating system. In short, if a file path surpasses 260 characters, it's open season: the path has to be referred to in a different format, first-party apps like Notepad or File Explorer start to behave erratically, and there's no guarantee what works and what doesn't anymore.

In this tutorial we'll encounter and modify old code, graft resources onto Windows executables and work with Ruby to solve the long file path issue.

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