Rails - Oct 2005 - Detecting Webrick // determining application "root" directory

Is there a way to detect Webrick at runtime?  I''ve
noticed a couple of differences between my dev
environment (Webrick) and the production environment
(Apache 2/FastCGI):

    * stream must be false in send_file with webrick
    * pwd is different
        - Webrick: It''s where you run ruby
script/server from
        - Apache: It''s the public directory

... unless someone knows of a more ruby-ish way to
determine the Rails "root" directory than using
Pathname.pwd.

Thanks.



		
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On Oct 13, 2005, at 5:31 PM, Dave M wrote:
> Is there a way to detect Webrick at runtime?  I''ve
> noticed a couple of differences between my dev
> environment (Webrick) and the production environment
> (Apache 2/FastCGI):
>
>     * stream must be false in send_file with webrick
>     * pwd is different
>         - Webrick: It''s where you run ruby
> script/server from
>         - Apache: It''s the public directory
>
> ... unless someone knows of a more ruby-ish way to
> determine the Rails "root" directory than using
> Pathname.pwd.
>
RAILS_ROOT is set to the root of your whole rails project dir. So  
RAILS_ROOT/public is your public dir and RAILS_ROOT/app/controllers  
is you controller dir.

HTH-
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