From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Date: 2011-06-18T04:49:24+09:00
Subject: Re: default config file location

On 6/17/2011 14:45, Matthew K. Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Chad Perrin wrote:
> 
>> Is there a "better" way to specify a default config file location than
>> this?
>>
>>    File.expand_path('~') + "/#{filename}"
> 
> Depending on the shell, '~' may not be defined.  $HOME is a better
> choice generally.

According to the documentation for File.expand_path, all that is
required is that $HOME is set correctly.  It doesn't apparently use the
shell to figure this out.  Chad's method even works on Windows. :-)

I might simplify this just a tiny bit though:

File.expand_path("~/#{filename}")

-Jeremy