Rails - Apr 2006 - Setting CWD to be RAILS_ROOT for fastcgi/Apache

All,

So I''ve discovered that when running on FastCGI with Apache and the 
working directory for the process is actually the "public" directory 
under RAILS_ROOT.

Is there a way to force the current working directory to be RAILS_ROOT 
for the FastCGI procs so that file manipulation would then be done 
relative to RAILS_ROOT?

Or should I just make sure that all of my paths are explicitly absoulute 
by using #{RAILS_ROOT} in them?

Thanks,
Wes

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On Apr 13, 2006, at 10:03 AM, Wes Gamble wrote:
> All,
>
> So I''ve discovered that when running on FastCGI with Apache and
the
> working directory for the process is actually the "public"
directory
> under RAILS_ROOT.
>
> Is there a way to force the current working directory to be RAILS_ROOT
> for the FastCGI procs so that file manipulation would then be done
> relative to RAILS_ROOT?
>
> Or should I just make sure that all of my paths are explicitly  
> absoulute
> by using #{RAILS_ROOT} in them?
>
> Thanks,
> Wes
>
> -
Wes-

	I answered this in one of your other threads about the same thing.  
You have to use "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/whatever" to access files from  
your rails app. *DO NOT* change the cwd as that will cause a ton of  
other problems that rails won''t be able to handle. Just use absolute  
paths or even better RAILS_ROOT + "/whatever/path"

Cheers-
-Ezra