From: Paul Brannan <paul@...>
Date: 2002-02-27T00:42:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Trouble with opening files

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:32:11AM +0900, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> I just can't wrap my head around why this little program doesn't work:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> $stdout.sync= true
> File.open("~/ruby/sample/testFile", "r")

You want:

  File.open(File.expand_path('~/ruby/sample/testFile', 'r') do |testFile|
    a = testFile.gets
    puts a
  end

Paul