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This is a noob question. I’m going through your book and was getting an file and/or directory not found error when I used the todo default “_{/.todo.txt for the -f flag. I was trying to open the file with mode ‘a+’}

When I changed the default to ENV[‘HOME’] + ”/.todo.txt, it opened ok.

I am using OSX 10.8 and ruby 1.93p194 and gli 1.6.0.

Is there a setting I haven’t made or have made that affects the use of ‘’ to stand for the home directory. I can use ’~/whatever’ from the command-line successfully

Thanks

for some reason, I’m not able to use the tilde representation in this text. Sorry

Hmm, I thought that you could use the tilde syntax by itself, but it seems that the File operations won’t work. If you use File.expand_path it will, though:

File.open(File.expand_path("~/.todo.txt")) do |file|
  # ..
end

Or, better:

desc "Path to the todo file" 
arg_name "todo_file" 
default_value File.expand_path("~/.todo.txt")
flag :f

Sorry for the confusion; there must be some code somewhere that does that that I was aware of, since the code all works/passes tests. Could be the faking out of the home directory masked it, though…