How to tell what directory the current file is in?

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How can I tell what directory the current file being executed is in?

This is not necessarily the same directory as returned by “Dir.pwd”.

I have “/home/seasft/dev/global” in my path. Inside this directory, there
is:

entity.rb
entity/staff.rb
entity/project.rb
entity/section.rb
…

I want entity.rb to load all the .rb files inside the “entity” directory.
I’m trying this right now:

File.find(‘entity’) do |f|
load f if f =~ /.rb$/
end

But, that uses the current working directory, rather than the directory
that entity.rb is located in. I can’t figure out how to determine what
directory entity.rb is in, and I’d rather not have to hardcode the path
because I have two copies of the system running in different places.

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Hi,

How can I tell what directory the current file being executed is in?

File.expand_path(File.dirname(FILE))

I want entity.rb to load all the .rb files inside the “entity” directory.
I’m trying this right now:

File.find(‘entity’) do |f|
load f if f =~ /.rb$/
end

Dir.glob(File.dirname(FILE)+“/*.rb”) do |f|
load f
end

Or

Dir.foreach(File.dirname(FILE)) do |f|
load f if /.rb$/ =~ f
end

···

At Wed, 18 Sep 2002 01:28:55 +0900, Philip Mak wrote:

–
Nobu Nakada

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absolute_filename = File.expand_path(FILE, Dir.getwd)
full_path = File.dirname(absolute_filename)
Find.find(File.join(full_path, ‘entity’)) do |f|
load f if f =~ /.rb$/
end

···

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 01:28:55AM +0900, Philip Mak wrote:

File.find(‘entity’) do |f|
load f if f =~ /.rb$/
end