From: Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesfeld@...>
Date: 2007-09-14T04:54:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Cross-platform Home Directory?

On 9/13/07, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/07, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 9/13/07, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a little app that needs to store session data. I assume the
> > > best place to store it is in one's home directory, but I need this app
> > > to be cross-platform. I glanced through all rbconfig.rb's
> > > Config::CONFIG settings but did not see anything for it. How does one
> > > access a cross-platform home directory?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > T.


Rubygems has a method for finding this:

C:\>irb -rubygems
>> Gem.user_home
=> "C:\\Documents and Settings\\gthiesfeld"