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> I have a little app that needs to store session data. I assume the
> best place to store it is in one's home directory, but I need this app
> to be cross-platform. I glanced through all rbconfig.rb's
> Config::CONFIG settings but did not see anything for it. How does one
> access a cross-platform home directory?
>
> Thanks,
> T.
>   
This is how I do this :
home_directory = Dir.chdir {|path| path}

The doc for Dir.chdir says that without argument, this method looks for 
environnement variables HOME or LOGDIR. And with a block, the directory 
is changed only inside the block, and restored right after.

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Olivier Renaud