From: A LeDonne <aledonne.listmail@...>
Date: 2006-05-22T23:01:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Payment Gem error

On 5/21/06, Robert MannI <robmnl@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm getting this error when trying to initialize Payment::AuthorizeNet
>
> couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding `~/.payment.yml'
>  /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/payment- 1.0.1/lib/payment/base.rb:21:in
> `expand_path'
>
>
> Any ideas what this could be?
>
> The payment source code that throws the error is:
>
> prefs = File.expand_path(options[:prefs] || "~/.payment.yml")
>
>
> Executing File.expand_path("~/.payment.yml") in IRB works fine.
>

Try using a full path name (like "/home/username/.payment.yml"),
rather than something with a tilde (~).

-A