Alex Young
3/20/2008 5:16:00 PM
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 01:50 +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:27:03PM +0900, Alex Young wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 16:05 +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > > I've got a program that needs to access a file in the ~/etc/ directory.
> > > This program currently accesses it like so:
> > >
> > > file_path = File.expand_path("~#{ENV['USER']}/etc/#{filename}")
> > >
> > > . . . but that environment variable just looks hideous in there, at least
> > > to me. In Perl, I'm used to using getpwuid() instead of $_ENV['user'].
> > > Is there some equivalent to that in Ruby, or am I stuck with ENV['USER']?
> > >
> >
> > require 'etc'
> > Etc.getpwuid.dir
> >
> > works for me...
>
> Hallelujah. That's exactly what I wanted. Thank you much.
>
> I don't know why this wasn't working:
>
> > ri getpwuid
> Nothing known about getpwuid
I get:
> qri getpwuid
nil
Same problem. Documentation seems to be rather hit-and-miss all round
these days, but I haven't got any time to contribute to help. I was
lucky with this - I managed to trawl it out of the depths of my memory
from a few months ago, when I needed something else in Etc.
--
Alex