From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-10-16T09:24:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question - how to get current directory into a variab

Peter Vanderhaden wrote:
> I'm running Ruby on Ubuntu Linux, and I need to be able to get the
> current directory that the program is running in into a variable in my
> program.  Is there a simple way to do this?  Also, is there a way to
> change directories within the program?
> Thanks....

Check out the Dir class, particularly Dir.pwd and Dir.chdir,

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