Ruby: opening files relative to home directory
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In Ruby, the following fails with Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory, even if the file exists:
open('~/some_file')
However, you can do this:
open(File.expand_path('~/some_file'))
Two questions:
- Why doesn't
openprocess the tilde as pointing to the home directory? - Is there a slicker way than using
File.expand_path?
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