Cross-platform means of getting user's home directory in Ruby?

Question

Java has the convienient System.getProperty(\"user.home\") to get the user\'s \"home\" directory in a platform-independent way. What\'s the equivalent in Ruby? I

Answer 1

This works on all operating systems

• For the current user

Dir.home

• For a given user

Dir.home('username')

Note: Username is case sensitive on Linux but not on Windows or macOS