From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2008-03-22T08:22:30+09:00
Subject: Re: getting the user's home directory path

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 06:16:02AM +0900, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> 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}")

Amazing -- and confusing.  I could swear I actually tried that and it
didn't work out for me.  I guess I must have dreamed that.

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