From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-01-22T01:30:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21491] Re: [Feature #1027] Dir.home

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Eero Saynatkari <ruby-ml@kittensoft.org> wrote:
> 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.)
>

The changes File.expand_path("~") has not been backported to 1.8.6,
and I believe they will not be.

For that purpose, I always set HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%

Agree on the idiomatic / Ruby style for Dir.home, that will be a nice addition.

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Luis Lavena
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