From: Philip Mak <mfraser@...>
Date: 2002-09-18T01:28:55+09:00
Subject: How to tell what directory the current file is in?

How can I tell what directory the current file being executed is in?

This is not necessarily the same directory as returned by "Dir.pwd".


I have "/home/seasft/dev/global" in my path. Inside this directory, there
is:

entity.rb
entity/staff.rb
entity/project.rb
entity/section.rb
...

I want entity.rb to load all the .rb files inside the "entity" directory.
I'm trying this right now:

File.find('entity') do |f|
    load f if f =~ /\.rb$/
end

But, that uses the current working directory, rather than the directory
that entity.rb is located in. I can't figure out how to determine what
directory entity.rb is in, and I'd rather not have to hardcode the path
because I have two copies of the system running in different places.