From: KUSUNOSE Toru <kusunose@...>
Date: 2004-02-28T18:34:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Profile-independent directory specification for NT?

Hi,

In message <20040225194848.GA24254@foobar.solution-x.com>,
"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org> wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:03:51PM +0900, Moran, Craig M (BAH) wrote:
>> Is there a way to specify a directory in Ruby that is profile-independent
>> for the Windows NT variants?  For example, if I wanted to do this in VBA for
>> the currently logged in user's My Documents folder, it would look like this:
>> ProfilePath = Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\My Documents\"
>> This way, regardless of who is logged in and runs the script, it will always
>> point to their own My Documents folder.  Thanks in advance for the help-
>Be aware that this is only correct on english versions of windows. In german
>e.g, the folder is not named "My Documents" but "Meine Dateien" (or
>something like that - don't use windows very often ;-) ).
>
>I believe that the windows registry is the right place to get that
>information from. (I have to admit though, that I have no idea how you could access
>the registry from ruby, and where you find this information there).

Using Windows Scripting Host, you can do:

require 'win32ole'
shell = WIN32OLE.new("WScript.Shell")
ProfilePath = shell.specialFolders("MyDocuments")

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