Where to store filesystem path?

Rails
#1

Hello,

My app needs to know where to store files but the path is different for
dev and production. What is the best way to do it?

  • something like $path = ‘/home/myrailsapp/public/files/’ in
    development.rb and $path = ‘/home/my_remote_prod_sapp/public/files/’ in
    production.rb?

  • do a test to check the env and add the path in application.rb?

  • do a test to check the env and add the path in the model files?

  • something clever?

#2

On 7/31/06, Erwann [email protected] wrote:

Hello,

My app needs to know where to store files but the path is different for
dev and production. What is the best way to do it?

  • something like $path = ‘/home/myrailsapp/public/files/’ in
    development.rb and $path = ‘/home/my_remote_prod_sapp/public/files/’ in
    production.rb?

Most certainly this one. It’s an environment-specific configuration
and should be treated as such.

Max

#3

Max M. wrote:

Most certainly this one. It’s an environment-specific configuration
and should be treated as such.

Note that you can also use the RAILS_ROOT constant. This is defined to
be the directory that contains your Rails application.

–
Philip R.
http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/ – DST-aware timezone library for Ruby

#4

thanks, That was so simple!