From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2008-03-20T17:27:03+09:00
Subject: Re: getting the user's home directory path


On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 16:05 +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
> 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']?
> 

require 'etc'
Etc.getpwuid.dir

works for me...

-- 
Alex