From: Terry Poulin <bigboss64@...>
Date: 2007-09-15T16:45:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Cross-platform Home Directory?

Olivier Renaud wrote:
> Trans a �crit :
>> 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.
>>
> This is how I do this :
> home_directory = Dir.chdir {|path| path}
>
> The doc for Dir.chdir says that without argument, this method looks for
> environnement variables HOME or LOGDIR. And with a block, the directory
> is changed only inside the block, and restored right after.
>
> --
> Olivier Renaud
>
>

At first I would just check ENV to see if HOME or USERPROFILE was set. Then
some one told me about the Platform gem :-)

You know, the OOP thing gives me a nice idea of how to use that hehe.


TerryP.


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