From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2009-01-21T12:19:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21478] Re: [Feature #1027] Dir.home

Hi,

At Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:00:00 +0900,
Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA wrote in [ruby-core:21454]:
> Portable way of getting home directory is complex see [ruby-core:12347].
> I think a simplest getting home directory is
>  Dir.chdir { Dir.pwd }
> now.
> But this is not thread-safe and changes directory needlessness.

File.expand_path("~") works.

-- 
Nobu Nakada