RAILS_ROOT Problem (a different one)

[HenriIV]

Hi,

Why RAILS_ROOT returns a relative path instead of a complete one?
I thought I could use RAILS_ROOT but with something like ./script/../config/.. instead of c:/ruby/rails/project1/ it's unusable

[notAdam]

Where are you looking to use RAILS_ROOT?

I hate to say it but Dir.pwd might return what you want.

[HenriIV]

I can't use Dir.pwd, I just want to get the root directory of my app, to do something like

UPLOAD_DIR = 'public/images/upload'

and add build the complete filesystem path with
complete_path = "#{RAILS_ROOT}/#{UPLOAD_DIR}"

[IAIHMB]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but if you reference a directory from a controller, model, whatever without a slash in the front it starts from your Rails application's root directory.