Re: [Rails-devel] Opening save files directly

[Jim B. <jim...@ya...>]

I agree that that using "the current directory" would work well-  
eventually I just moved my dropbox so that it lived where Rails  
insisted on setting the working directory.  :-)

Also, Chris asked me about that java user.dir setting- it turns out it  
doesn't work on windows either.

Here's my mea culpa (indirectly):
 >
 > Doh! Sorry, gave you a bum steer on user.dir. That's a
 > java system property that I suggested trying w/out actually
 > trying it out in rails myself. Does not work for me in windows
 > either.
 >
 > On reflection, there's no real reason to think that should
 > have worked. rails starts that load dialog out in My Documents
 > even though I am starting rails from somewhere else, so the
 > path rails uses for that dialog is plainly not based on user.dir.
 >
 > If this was going to be added as a feature to rails,
 > it would probably be more appropriate for them to read
 > a property defined specifically for rails, rather than
 > trying to leverage user.dir. user.dir defaults to the
 > directory that java was started from and probably should
 > not be overwritten anyway.
 >
 > Sorry I made you guys waste time on that, should have tried
 > it out before making the suggestion. :-(
 >

Which brings us all to the same conclusions on that, I think!

Finally, chris wrote
 > Is there any way to specify "the current directory" in a  
Mac .command file?

Well- depending on what you mean- it's a unix command shell, so you  
could try `pwd` (inside single-backquotes, just like that).

Thanks Erik and everyone for the work and thoughts on some pragmatic  
tweaks/options here.

regards,
  - jim


On Nov 7, 2009, at 3:41 AM, Chris Shaffer wrote:

> Sorry to spam the list on this - next time I'll do (most) of my  
> testing and then report back.
>
> So, I was able to rename the rails.sh file to rails.command, use  
> chmod+x and then execute it by double clicking in the Mac  
> interface.  It couldn't find the jar file.  If I edit the file to  
> have the fully qualified path to the jar file, it works but  
> obviously that won't translate to my other Mac, where my home  
> directory has a different path.  Is there any way to specify "the  
> current directory" in a Mac .command file?
>
> Again, defaulting to the current directory would be a great solution  
> for this.
>
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> Chris
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