From: Brian Hartin <brian.hartin@...>
Date: 2010-05-28T02:51:07+09:00
Subject: Ruby confused about current directory?

Hi all,

Something is wrong with my environment such that ruby occasionally gets
confused about the 'current directory'.  I'm running ruby 1.8.6
(2010-02-04 patchlevel 398) [i386-mingw32] on Windows XP.

The root problem, which seems to break Rake, as well as gem installs, is
that under some situations it thinks the current directory is the
Windows USER_HOME, directory even when the script runs from another
directory.

One way to reproduce this is to create a script that prints the working
directory, e.g. 'puts Dir.pwd'.  Next, run these commands in IRB from
the root dir, c:\

irb(main):001:0> Kernel.system('c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe
c:\temp\printdir.rb')
"Current dir: C:/"
=> true
irb(main):001:0> Kernel.system('call c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe
c:\temp\printdir.rb')
"Current dir: C:/Documents and Settings/hartbr"
=> true

I have reinstalled ruby, with no luck.  It doesn't do this on a
co-workers machine.  Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks,

Brian
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