# Finding current drive

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/finding-current-drive/137708>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 15, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/finding-current-drive/137708 "2008-05-15T15:44:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![parvg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@parvg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/parvg)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/finding-current-drive/137708/1 "2008-05-15T15:44:50Z")

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hello,

Is there a way to find out under what drive my current/active file is?

if the .rb file i’m working on is sitting in c:/code/ruby/myfile.rb, i  
would like to find a way to retrieve “c”.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![parvg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@parvg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/parvg)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/finding-current-drive/137708/2 "2008-05-15T15:56:12Z")

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On May 15, 3:44 pm, “Parv G.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Is there a way to find out under what drive my current/active file is?
> 
> if the .rb file i’m working on is sitting in c:/code/ruby/myfile.rb, i  
> would like to find a way to retrieve “c”.

Dir.pwd - if you want to find out what the “working directory” is,  
i.e. where the user was when he launched the script.

File.expand\_path($0) - if you want to find what script was run from  
the command line.

File.expand\_path( **FILE** ) - if you want to find the path to the  
current script file.

Lars

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**Author:** ![parvg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@parvg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/parvg)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/finding-current-drive/137708/3 "2008-05-15T16:07:38Z")

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> Dir.pwd - if you want to find out what the “working directory” is,  
> i.e. where the user was when he launched the script.
> 
> File.expand\_path($0) - if you want to find what script was run from  
> the command line.
> 
> File.expand\_path( **FILE** ) - if you want to find the path to the  
> current script file.
> 
> Lars

thanks! i could work with these.

Parv

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**Author:** ![parvg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@parvg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/parvg)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/finding-current-drive/137708/4 "2008-05-15T16:35:29Z")

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