From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2008-03-21T06:16:02+09:00
Subject: Re: getting the user's home directory path

Hi,

At Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:05:12 +0900,
Chad Perrin wrote in [ruby-talk:295141]:
> 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}")

File.expand_path("~/etc/#{filename}")

-- 
Nobu Nakada