root() public

Necessary to get rerun-snippets working.

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June 4, 2009
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example

Ruby style

Dir[File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'vendor', 'plugins', '*')]

Rails style

Dir[Rails.root.join('vendor', 'plugins', '*')]
February 25, 2010
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Possible gotcha

This method returns a Pathname object which handles paths starting with a / as absolute (starting from the root of the filesystem). Compare:

>> Rails.root => #<Pathname:/some/path/to/project> >> Rails.root + "file" => #<Pathname:/some/path/to/project/file> >> Rails.root + "/file" => #<Pathname:/file> >> Rails.root.join "file" => #<Pathname:/some/path/to/project/file> >> Rails.root.join "/file" => #<Pathname:/file>