From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-11-25T18:21:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Library path relative to current .rb file

On Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 8:09:36 AM, Andrew wrote:


> The full solution is worse. To handle the case of the script being executed 
> via symlinks or relative paths, you need to do something like this:

>         require 'ftools'
>         dir = File.expand_path(__FILE__)
>         while File.symlink?(dir); dir = File.readlink(dir); end
>         SCRIPT_DIR = File.dirname(dir)

>         require SCRIPT_DIR+'/my_script.rb'
>         ...


  require 'pathname'
  dir = Pathname.new(File.expand_path(__FILE__)).realpath

Gavin