From: itsme213 <itsme213@...>
Date: 2005-04-12T13:14:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] cmd 0.7.0: Library for Line-Oriented Command Interpreters (initial release)

thanks, i just declared a HOME env-var and it worked fine.


"Marcel Molina Jr." <marcel@vernix.org> wrote in message
news:20050412035114.GJ31062@simons-rock.edu...
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:29:38PM +0900, itsme213 wrote:
> > "Marcel Molina Jr." <marcel@vernix.org> wrote in message
> > news:20050410202623.GR31062@simons-rock.edu...
> > > = Cmd 0.7.0 (initial release)
> >
> > Gem install, Windows XP, Ruby 1.8.2, trying out phonebook.rb, I get:
> >
> > [C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\cmd-0.7.2\example]ruby phonebook.rb
> > phonebook.rb:11:in `expand_path': couldn't find HOME environment -- 
> > expanding `~/.pho
> > nebook' (ArgumentError)
> >         from phonebook.rb:11
>
> Yes, I was fairly certain when I wrote that that it would not work on
> Windows.  The phonebook.rb example is meant to be simple and illustrative
so
> I passed over my recognition that I was more than likely imposing a
platform
> dependency. A bit insensitive, sorry 'bout that :)
>
> Thanks for reporting this. Just for kicks I've made phonebook.rb a bit
more
> platform agnostic. Mind you I don't have access to a Windows machine to
test
> this but it *seems* like it ought to cover most cases.
>
>   PHONEBOOK_FILE = begin
>     File.expand_path('~/.phonebook')
>   rescue
>     File.join((ENV['HOME'] || ENV['USERPROFILE']), '_phonebook')
>   end
>
> Windows users that I asked knew many ways in which this could be made more
> rigorous or "accurate" or what have you but for the purposes of the
> phonebook example I'm assuming this will work well enough.
>
> Thanks again. Please let me know if you implement something with cmd and
> thanks for the interest.