https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/1027?journal_id=2691 2009-01-21T12:21:11Z nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) [email protected] <ul></ul><p>=begin<br> Hi,</p> <p>At Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:00:00 +0900,<br> Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA wrote in <a href="proxy.php?url=/issues/1027">[ruby-core:21454]</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Portable way of getting home directory is complex see <a href="proxy.php?url=https://blade.ruby-lang.org/ruby-core/12347">[ruby-core:12347]</a>.<br> I think a simplest getting home directory is<br> Dir.chdir { Dir.pwd }<br> now.<br> But this is not thread-safe and changes directory needlessness.</p> </blockquote> <p>File.expand_path("~") works.</p> <p>--<br> Nobu Nakada</p> <p>=end</p> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/1027?journal_id=2704 2009-01-22T01:26:55Z rue (Eero Saynatkari) <ul></ul><p>=begin<br> Excerpts from Nobuyoshi Nakada's message of Wed Jan 21 05:19:23 +0200 2009:</p> <blockquote> <p>Hi,</p> <p>At Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:00:00 +0900,<br> Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA wrote in <a href="proxy.php?url=/issues/1027">[ruby-core:21454]</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Portable way of getting home directory is complex see <a href="proxy.php?url=https://blade.ruby-lang.org/ruby-core/12347">[ruby-core:12347]</a>.<br> I think a simplest getting home directory is<br> Dir.chdir { Dir.pwd }<br> now.<br> But this is not thread-safe and changes directory needlessness.</p> </blockquote> <p>File.expand_path("~") works.</p> </blockquote> <p>A Dir.home might be more idiomatic considering Windows et al.<br> (And, of course, <code>File.expand_path ""</code> does not expand to the<br> home directory in 1.8.6 at least, which may or may not be<br> expected.)</p> <p>--<br> Magic is insufficiently advanced technology.</p> <p>=end</p> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/1027?journal_id=2705 2009-01-22T01:31:54Z luislavena (Luis Lavena) [email protected] <ul></ul><p>=begin<br> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Eero Saynatkari <a href="proxy.php?url=mailto:[email protected]" class="email">[email protected]</a> wrote:</p> <blockquote> <p>Excerpts from Nobuyoshi Nakada's message of Wed Jan 21 05:19:23 +0200 2009:</p> <blockquote> <p>Hi,</p> <p>At Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:00:00 +0900,<br> Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA wrote in <a href="proxy.php?url=/issues/1027">[ruby-core:21454]</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Portable way of getting home directory is complex see <a href="proxy.php?url=https://blade.ruby-lang.org/ruby-core/12347">[ruby-core:12347]</a>.<br> I think a simplest getting home directory is<br> Dir.chdir { Dir.pwd }<br> now.<br> But this is not thread-safe and changes directory needlessness.</p> </blockquote> <p>File.expand_path("~") works.</p> </blockquote> <p>A Dir.home might be more idiomatic considering Windows et al.<br> (And, of course, <code>File.expand_path ""</code> does not expand to the<br> home directory in 1.8.6 at least, which may or may not be<br> expected.)</p> </blockquote> <p>The changes File.expand_path("~") has not been backported to 1.8.6,<br> and I believe they will not be.</p> <p>For that purpose, I always set HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%</p> <p>Agree on the idiomatic / Ruby style for Dir.home, that will be a nice addition.</p> <a name="---Luis-Lavena-AREA-17"></a> <h2 >--<br> Luis Lavena<br> AREA 17<a href="proxy.php?url=#---Luis-Lavena-AREA-17" class="wiki-anchor">&para;</a></h2> <p>Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,<br> but rather when there is nothing more to take away.<br> Antoine de Saint-Exupéry</p> <p>=end</p> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/1027?journal_id=2711 2009-01-22T11:15:04Z nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) [email protected] <ul></ul><p>=begin<br> Hi,</p> <p>At Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:30:00 +0900,<br> Luis Lavena wrote in <a href="proxy.php?url=https://blade.ruby-lang.org/ruby-core/21491">[ruby-core:21491]</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The changes File.expand_path("~") has not been backported to 1.8.6,<br> and I believe they will not be.</p> </blockquote> <p>What change? Using %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%, %USERPROFILE% or the<br> personal folder patch has been backported at p127, in Jun 2008.</p> <p>--<br> Nobu Nakada</p> <p>=end</p> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/1027?journal_id=2712 2009-01-22T11:16:27Z nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) [email protected] <ul></ul><p>=begin<br> Hi,</p> <p>At Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:25:05 +0900,<br> Eero Saynatkari wrote in <a href="proxy.php?url=https://blade.ruby-lang.org/ruby-core/21490">[ruby-core:21490]</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>(And, of course, <code>File.expand_path ""</code> does not expand to the<br> home directory in 1.8.6 at least, which may or may not be<br> expected.)</p> </blockquote> <p>It is not expected definitely. It should be the current<br> working directory.</p> <p>--<br> Nobu Nakada</p> <p>=end</p> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/1027?journal_id=2727 2009-01-23T21:55:29Z znz (Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA) <ul></ul><p>=begin<br> At Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:26:40 +0900,<br> C.E. Thornton wrote:</p> <blockquote> <p>Dir.chdir(File.expand_path("~")) works on linux/unix<br> systems. Does that concept of a "home" Directory translate<br> to other OS's?</p> </blockquote> <p>If Dir.chdir without arguments works,<br> Dir.home can return the directory.<br> Otherwise Dir.home will raise exception or return nil,<br> I think.</p> <p>=end</p> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/1027?journal_id=2888 2009-02-02T12:44:04Z ko1 (Koichi Sasada) <ul><li><strong>Assignee</strong> set to <i>matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)</i></li></ul><p>=begin</p> <p>=end</p> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/1027?journal_id=2917 2009-02-02T16:37:06Z nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) [email protected] <ul><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>Open</i> to <i>Closed</i></li><li><strong>% Done</strong> changed from <i>0</i> to <i>100</i></li></ul><p>=begin<br> Applied in changeset r21953.<br> =end</p> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/1027?journal_id=2928 2009-02-02T23:16:22Z rogerdpack (Roger Pack) [email protected] <ul></ul><p>=begin<br> Thanks for doing that Nobu.<br> -=r<br> =end</p>