how to get the current working directory's absolute path from irb

Question

I\'m running Ruby on Windows though I don\'t know if that should make a difference. All I want to do is get the current working directory\'s absolute path. Is this possible fr

Answer 1

As for the path relative to the current executing script, since Ruby 2.0 you can also use

__dir__

So this is basically the same as

File.dirname(__FILE__)