From: Niklas Baumstark <niklas.baumstark@...>
Date: 2008-08-01T02:29:19+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get special directories?

Gordon Thiesfeld wrote:
> 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"

Thanks that'll help alot! Is something similiar available on linux as 
well?

Greetings,
Niklas
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