From: dusty <dusty.doris@...>
Date: 2008-12-17T14:52:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Unable to locate config file.

On Dec 16, 10:16 pm, Ch Ba <navo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  I have a gemmed command line utility that requires a configuration
> file. The configuration file is included in the gem and installs in the
> base directory. A file in /lib needs to load it, but I am unable to do
> so. Calling '../config.yml' does not locate it, nor does anything else
> I've tried so far as the current directory is just wherever the command
> line utility is being run from. How can I locate this configuration file
> in a friendly os independent way?
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Try

File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'..','config.yml')