I'm running my program in a directory with the following path:

/home/user/Desktop/Ruby/Projects/event_manager/lib,

trying to accomplish the following:

Dir.mkdir('output') unless Dir.exist?('output')
filename = "output/thanks.html"

Working well, however it does create the folder in my /home/user directory, and then in it creates this .html file, instead of the directory I run the program in. I always have to type the full path to the directory I'm in whenever I wanna create a new directory or files. How may it be changed to create the files in this specific /lib directory and not having to type the paths manually? Moreover, whenever I try to run, for instance:

blahblah = File.read('noodles.html')

The program recognizes that this particular noodles.html file actually IS in the current directory and reads it perfectly.

CodePudding user response：

You should get the current directory path and concat with filename.

Try this code, it should solve the problem.

dirname = 'output'
Dir.mkdir(dirname) unless Dir.exist?(dirname)
filename = "thanks.html"
filepath = "#{Dir.pwd}/#{dirname}/#{filename}" # Dir.pwd to get current irb directory
blahblah = File.read(filepath)

Hope it helps