Rails - Jul 2005 - RAILS_ROOT in Models

I am working on my configuration generator since I haven''t touched it
since 0.11. Seems that in one of the models where I save to a file
using File.open() I have the following

File.open("#{RAILS_ROOT}config/#{self.name.downcase.gsub(/\s+/,
''_'')}_settings.yaml", "w")

An exception is thrown because it resolves that to just config/
instead of the full path.

If I replace #{RAILS_ROOT} with a hard path then it works fine.

Just curious why RAILS_ROOT doesn''t seem to work in the model files.

-Paul

On 7/21/05, Paul <paul.marsh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I am working on my configuration generator since I haven''t touched
it
> since 0.11. Seems that in one of the models where I save to a file
> using File.open() I have the following
> 
> File.open("#{RAILS_ROOT}config/#{self.name.downcase.gsub(/\s+/,
> ''_'')}_settings.yaml", "w")
> 
> An exception is thrown because it resolves that to just config/
> instead of the full path.
> 
> If I replace #{RAILS_ROOT} with a hard path then it works fine.
> 
> Just curious why RAILS_ROOT doesn''t seem to work in the model
files.
try this: 

File.open("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/#{self.name.downcase.gsub(/\s+/,
''_'')}_settings.yaml", "w")

(notice the / after #{RAILS_ROOT})


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