From: "Matthew K. Williams" <matt@...>
Date: 2011-06-18T05:09:02+09:00
Subject: Re: default config file location

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Chad Perrin wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 04:49:24AM +0900, 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. :-)
>
> Do you know whether that's consistent across Ruby implementations (e.g,
> Rubinius and JRuby)?  I imagine it is for Rubinius, at least, given the
> project's focus on API consistency. . . .

It works on jruby (I checked 1.6.0)

Matt