From: Henrik Nyh <henrik@...>
Date: 2008-10-15T04:21:23+09:00
Subject: Re: User home

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Jesús Gabriel y Galán
<jgabrielygalan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Kless <jonas.esp@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Is there any method to get the value of user home which in Linux would
>> be stored in $HOME?
>
> ENV['HOME']
>
>> Valid for windows and mac osx too

Works fine in OS X.

Rails has a Dir.user_home which is more complicated. No idea if that
works on Windows, but the source is here:
http://noobkit.com/show/ruby/rails/rails-stable/rails/dir/user_home.html