From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2011-06-18T07:29:58+09:00
Subject: Re: default config file location

On Friday, June 17, 2011 02:53:23 PM Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 04:45:56AM +0900, 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.
> 
> I take it you mean the above should be changed to this:
> 
>     ENV['HOME'] + "/#{filename}"
> 
> Is that what you mean?

As people have pointed out, File.expand_path probably works.
I do find this a bit cleaner, though:

File.join(ENV['HOME'], filename)