__PATH__ like __FILE__?

[Deniz Dogan]

Hello.
I'm rather new to Ruby, so please bare with me. I just want to know if
there is anything similar to __FILE__ but which represents either the
path to the directory which __FILE__ lies in, or the __FILE__ including
the full path to the file?

--Deniz Dogan

 

[James Edward Gray II]

Hello.
Hello.

I'm rather new to Ruby, so please bare with me.

Welcome to Ruby then.

I just want to know if there is anything similar to __FILE__ but
which represents either the path to the directory which __FILE__
lies in, or the __FILE__ including the full path to the file?

Just ask Ruby to expand it for you:

File.expand_path(__FILE__)

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II

 

[Olivier Renaud]

Le vendredi 02 mars 2007 14:55, Deniz Dogan a =E9crit=A0:

Hello.
I'm rather new to Ruby, so please bare with me. I just want to know if
there is anything similar to __FILE__ but which represents either the
path to the directory which __FILE__ lies in, or the __FILE__ including
the full path to the file?

--Deniz Dogan

You have to use the File.expand_path to do this :

=46ile.expand_path(__FILE__)
=46ile.dirname(File.expand_path(__FILE__))

=2D-=20
Olivier Renaud

 

[Deniz Dogan]

Le vendredi 02 mars 2007 14:55, Deniz Dogan a écrit :

You have to use the File.expand_path to do this :

File.expand_path(__FILE__)
File.dirname(File.expand_path(__FILE__))

Thanks to both of you.

 

[Louis J Scoras]

Hello.
I'm rather new to Ruby, so please bare with me. I just want to know if
there is anything similar to __FILE__ but which represents either the
path to the directory which __FILE__ lies in, or the __FILE__ including
the full path to the file?

--Deniz Dogan

Deniz;

Take a look at the 'pathname' library included with ruby:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/pathname/rdoc/classes/Pathname.html

You should be able to get all that information by combining it with __FILE__:

path = Pathname.new(__FILE__)
p path.dirname
p path.expand_path

# ...

 

[Daniel DeLorme]

You have to use the File.expand_path to do this :

File.expand_path(__FILE__)
File.dirname(File.expand_path(__FILE__))

Or:
File.expand_path(__FILE__+'/..')

;-)

Daniel

 

[Trans]

Hello.
I'm rather new to Ruby, so please bare with me. I just want to know if
there is anything similar to __FILE__ but which represents either the
path to the directory which __FILE__ lies in, or the __FILE__ including
the full path to the file?

I suggested the same a while back as __DIR__. I too think it would be
a good thing to have.

T.

 

[George Ogata]

Or:
File.expand_path(__FILE__+'/..')

;-)

Daniel

Or even:

File.expand_path('..', __FILE__)

Oh, the choices!

George.

 

[Chad Perrin]

Or even:

File.expand_path('..', __FILE__)

Ooh, that one's pretty.