From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2009-01-22T01:25:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21490] Re: [Feature #1027] Dir.home

Excerpts from Nobuyoshi Nakada's message of Wed Jan 21 05:19:23 +0200 2009:
> 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.

A Dir.home might be more idiomatic considering Windows et al.
(And, of course, `File.expand_path ""` does not expand to the
home directory in 1.8.6 at least, which may or may not be
expected.)


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