From: Jason Voegele <jason@...>
Date: 2003-02-10T03:47:46+09:00
Subject: Re: How to find an install directory.

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Say I have "mod.rb" installed, and in "file.rb" I call it with:
> require "mod"
> 
> I need "mod.rb" to know in which directory *it* is installed.  
> Unfortunatelly, it interprets the current directory to be the current 
> directory of "file.rb", as opposed to its own.
> 
> How can "mod.rb" find its own current directory?

f = __FILE__
len =  -f.length

my_dir = File::expand_path(f)[0...len]

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Jason Voegele
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