From: "Matthew K. Williams" <matt@...>
Date: 2011-06-18T04:54:26+09:00
Subject: Re: default config file location

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Jeremy Bopp wrote:

> 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. :-)
>

Thanks for that; I'll have to remember it!

Matt