From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-05-01T01:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: File.expand_path(__FILE__)

"Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@fattire.ngdc.noaa.gov> wrote:
> > 
> > it seems we can't determine the absolute path of __FILE__ correctly 
> > after a chdir without having planned for that eventuality before the 
> > chdir.
> > 
> > Can someone solve that one?
> 
> what's wrong with this, i do it in all my programs:
> 
> require 'pathname'
> 
> class Main
>   ...
>   FILE = Pathname.new(__FILE__).realpath.to_s
>   ...
> end
> 
> what's wrong with solving it by planning for it?

I don't intend to be non-friendly, but if you do so in all your Main classes, 
then it looks like kludge to me.  You wouldn't have to make such work-arounds 
if __FILE__ were with an absolute path.

I don't know if all this rethinking __FILE__/$0 makes sense.. 

--
Simon Strandgaard