You can use the Dir class to do that pretty easily. If you just want a list of all files in a directory excluding any subdirectories you can do it like this:
Dir[RAILS_ROOT+"/public/*"].reject{|f| File.directory?(f)}.map {|f| File.basename(f) }
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