Path of Home directory

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I am writing a ruby application (http://speedreader.rubyforge.org/),
where I would like to store some user information to something like
~/.speedreader, and a similar path in windows. I know that in Linux I
can get this path with

Dir.chdir
homewd = Dir.pwd

Does this work in windows too? I have currently no access to a windows
machine.

Martin

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Martin Ankerl wrote:

~/.speedreader

Dir.chdir
homewd = Dir.pwd

Does this work in windows too? I have currently no access to a

windows

machine.

Based on my test on a win 2000 system - no.

For windows systems, you might try ENV['USERPROFILE'] + "/Local
Settings/Application Data/" to store your app data. (I suspect more
robust way to determine this path). I don't know if this applies to
other Win versions.

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Martin Ankerl wrote:

I know that in Linux I
can get this path with

Dir.chdir
homewd = Dir.pwd

Does this work in windows too? I have currently no access to a windows
machine.

Based on my test on Windows XP, yes.

But you might want to use the following instead:

home_dir = File.expand_path("~")

Regards,
Florian Gross

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Florian Gross wrote:

Martin Ankerl wrote:

I know that in Linux I
can get this path with

Dir.chdir
homewd = Dir.pwd

Does this work in windows too? I have currently no access to a windows
machine.

Based on my test on Windows XP, yes.

But you might want to use the following instead:

home_dir = File.expand_path("~")

Regards,
Florian Gross

Neither work on my XP Pro machine, HOME isn't a defined environment variable, though HOME_PATH is, if that means anything.

-- Brian Palmer

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Brian Palmer wrote:

Dir.chdir
homewd = Dir.pwd

home_dir = File.expand_path("~")

Neither work on my XP Pro machine, HOME isn't a defined environment variable, though HOME_PATH is, if that means anything.

I have HOME, USERPROFILE and HOMEDRIVE + HOMEPATH. Ruby seems to be depending on HOME in those code samples. I propose that it should fallback to USERPROFILE and HOMEDRIVE + HOMEPATH (at least on Win32).

Regards,
Florian Gross

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Hi,

At Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:00:56 +0900,
Florian Gross wrote in [ruby-talk:109611]:

I have HOME, USERPROFILE and HOMEDRIVE + HOMEPATH. Ruby seems to be
depending on HOME in those code samples. I propose that it should
fallback to USERPROFILE and HOMEDRIVE + HOMEPATH (at least on Win32).

Now modified in CVS HEAD.

···

--
Nobu Nakada

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Hi,

Moin!

I have HOME, USERPROFILE and HOMEDRIVE + HOMEPATH. Ruby seems to be depending on HOME in those code samples. I propose that it should fallback to USERPROFILE and HOMEDRIVE + HOMEPATH (at least on Win32).

Now modified in CVS HEAD.

Thanks for the quick response. :slight_smile:

···

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

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Now modified in CVS HEAD.

That was quick. Thanks!

Martin