From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2008-03-20T16:05:12+09:00
Subject: getting the user's home directory path

I've got a program that needs to access a file in the ~/etc/ directory.
This program currently accesses it like so:

  file_path = File.expand_path("~#{ENV['USER']}/etc/#{filename}")

. . . but that environment variable just looks hideous in there, at least
to me.  In Perl, I'm used to using getpwuid() instead of $_ENV['user'].
Is there some equivalent to that in Ruby, or am I stuck with ENV['USER']?

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