From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-01-06T01:55:29+09:00
Subject: Re: filepath in identify for paperclip cygwin

On Jan 5, 12:27 pm, "Kasper F." <wtdniel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dan Quach wrote in post #889421:
>
>
>
> > Here, it uses "C:/users/shinzu" which is totally incorrect for cygwin.
> > I also noticed that this is where files were being uploaded to
> > temporarily
>
> > Question: What is the environment variable responsible for uploading
> > temporary files like this?  I need to make sure c:/users/shinzu is
> > \cygdrive\c\users\shinzu
>
> > thanks!
> > -dan
>
> I had the same problem, and it took me 3 weeks to solve.
> You have to change the temp file path.
> In enviroment.rb write:
> ENV['TMPDIR'] = '/cygdrive/c/users/shinzu'
>

Question, are you using cygwin Ruby or native Ruby? because
File.expand_path of cygwin will return the proper cygdrive while
mixing native RUby with cygwin libraries will not work.

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Luis Lavena