Why is RAILS_ROOT so back and forth?

RAILS_ROOT is:

script/…/config/…/config/…

Why does it go back and forth like that? I mean, it goes into /config
twice!

Joe

RAILS_ROOT is:

script/…/config/…/config/…

Why does it go back and forth like that? I mean, it goes into /config
twice!

Making it cleaner doesn’t always work if there are symlinks involved.
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2533

Yeah that is pretty crazy.