From: Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesfeld@...>
Date: 2008-08-01T02:25:45+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get special directories?

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Niklas Baumstark
<niklas.baumstark@gmail.com> wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> On Jul 31, 2008, at 07:57 AM, Niklas Baumstark wrote:
>>> how can i get ruby to get me some special directories, such as the
>>> home-folder on linux or "documents and settings" on windows? is there
>>> already some functionality available to do this or will i have to use
>>> platform-native functions (for example COM on windows)?
>>
>> To get folders like 'documents and settings' on windows you need to
>> use win32api.  Depending on language, these may have different names.

You can also use the win32-dir gem

C:\>gem in win32-dir
Successfully installed win32-dir-0.3.2
1 gem installed
C:\>irb
>> require 'win32/dir'
=> true
>> Dir::PROFILE
=> "C:\\Documents and Settings\\gthiesfeld"
>>