From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2003-07-21T10:58:24+09:00
Subject: Re: BUG: CGI.Session on Windows



> In message "BUG: CGI.Session on Windows"
>     on 03/07/20, Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> writes:
>
> |'/tmp' is not valid under windows and normally (standart
> |configuration) CGI's don't get the environment variables from the
> |system. So could we change this into
> |
> |"dir = option['tmpdir'] || ENV['TMP'] || Dir::temp_directory
> |
> |and add a "temp_directory" method to the Dir class that returns '/tmp'
> |or on windows the value of the "GetTempPath" function.
> |
> |I would highly recommand this change. It makes the newbies life much
> |easier.
>
> Interesting idea.  We have same problem for tempfile library.  Maybe
> it can be defined by Ruby library.  I think GetTempPath can be
> accessed via Win32API, right?
>
> matz.
>



require "Win32API"
MAX_PATH = 260

def temp_path
  t_path = ' '*(MAX_PATH+1)
  t_path[0, Win32API.new('kernel32', 'GetTempPath', 'LP', 'L').call(t_path.size, t_path)]
end

puts temp_path

# -> C:\TEMP\


## Remarks (from Win32 help)

## The GetTempPath function gets the temporary file path as follows:

## 1. The path specified by the TMP environment variable.
## 2. The path specified by the TEMP environment variable, if TMP is not defined.
## 3. The current directory, if both TMP and TEMP are not defined.


daz