From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-06-17T03:11:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Absolute paths in $"

On Jun 16, 2006, at 7:05 AM, Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov wrote:

> On 16-jun-2006, at 4:42, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>
>> In message "Re: Absolute paths in $""
>>     on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:17:19 +0900, transfire@gmail.com writes:
>>
>> |Any chance Ruby 1.8.5 will have absolute paths in $" instead of
>> |relative ones? I know that's planned for 2.0 but I sure could use it
>> |now.
>>
>> I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode.
>> Any opinion?
>
> I would welcome it, for one. Right now you have to expand_path  
> everything manually and in Rails it becomes very difficult to  
> follow all the ../../../ properly.

That sounds more like a Rails bug, it should be expanding paths for you.

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