[ruby-core:18345] Re: NEW Command: absolute_path() --

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:39:45AM +0900, Pit Capitain wrote:
> 2008/8/19 Trans <[e-mail]>:
> > Is this common practice? I mean it seems like a sucky edge case to
> > have to fuss with. Why not just have a separate method for that, say
> >
> >  File.home_path('thornton')
>=20
> +1
>=20
> Though it might be common unix practice, Ruby could/should have a more
> explicit way to get at the home path of a user. I think there's no
> need to encode this in a file naming scheme. Can anyone show me a use
> case where it would be more appropriate to have the existing behaviour
> instead of a separate method?

User input:

  config =3D YAML.load(File.read(config_file_path))
  destination_path =3D File.expand_path(config["destination_path"])

I've always understood File.expand_path to be intended for this kind of use=
,=20
where a user might plausibly expect to be able to use the kind of expansion=
s=20
they can in the Bourne shell.=20

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Matthew Boeh