From: Christopher Aldridge <caldridge@...>
Date: 2005-08-25T11:23:11+09:00
Subject: Re: OS independent way to read/write paths?

Cool! Thanks for sharing the correct way of doing it :-)

On 8/24/05, Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
> Christopher Aldridge wrote:
> > to determine how to handle the path, I use something as such:
> >
> > require 'rbconfig'
> > include Config
> >
> > home = "c:/documents and settings/username" if CONFIG['host'].match("mswin")
> > home = "/home/username" if CONFIG['host'].match("solaris")  ##for
> > solaris nix box
> >
> > system("echo hello > #{home}/.txt")
> >
> > The forward slashes usually work for windows in most cases but....
> > hope this helps..
> 
> I'm going OT here, but...
> 
> First, you don't need rbconfig.  Just check against PLATFORM, e.g. if
> PLATFORM.match("mswin").
> 
> Second, I would use ENV["HOME"] || ENV["USERPROFILE"] over a hard coded home
> directory on Windows.
> 
> Third, on Unix platforms, you can generally rely on ENV["HOME"].  If not, you
> can always use the etc or sys-admin package, e.g.
> 
> Admin.get_user(Admin.get_login).dir
> 
> Actually, you can do the same thing on Windows, though it usually isn't set
> locally (and you probably don't want the global home directory), e.g.
> 
> Admin.get_user(Admin.get_login).home_dir
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan
> 
>