From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Date: 2012-10-29T23:07:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Running a Ruby script through a shortcut on a different drive.

In the properties for your shortcut, set the "Start in" path to wherever
you want your logs to be located.  Otherwise, you need to modify your
script to write its log files to an explicit path rather than rely on
the current working directory.

-Jeremy

On 10/29/2012 08:58 AM, Joel Pearson wrote:
> I have a script which dumps a logfile into its local directory. This has
> been working fine, but recently I've moved all the files into another
> directory and used a shortcut to run it.
> 
> My shortcut is on the desktop on the "C" drive, and the files are in a
> subfolder on "D". The odd thing is that the logfile doesn't go to either
> of these places, it goes to the root of D:\
> 
> I assume that this is due to the way the windows command prompt won't go
> across drives without first going to the root of the new drive.
> 
> Is this a bug? Is there some easy way to make this more portable without
> having the working directory be the root?
> 
> Thanks for your time.
>