From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-09-06T23:00:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:39303] Re: Dir.home and Windows specific behavior

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I would somewhat expect ENV["HOME"] return %ProfileDir% when %HOME% is not set.
>

I'm not inquiring about what value is used, but the behavior of
ENV["HOME"] been added if is absent in the environment.

My question is if this was due memoization optimization or what.

> That allows programs to get a user-writable directory without
> special-casing Windows.
>

Home directory will resolve with the following logic

It will try the following environment variables:

HOME
HOMEDRIVE + HOMEPATH
USERPROFILE
CSIDL_PROFILE
CSIDL_PERSONAL.

There is no ProfileDir environment variable, but I believe the above
listed options cover what you expected it to do.

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Luis Lavena
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