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