require_relative '../../spec_helper' require_relative 'fixtures/common' describe "Dir.home" do before :each do @home = ENV['HOME'] ENV['HOME'] = "/rubyspec_home" end after :each do ENV['HOME'] = @home end describe "when called without arguments" do it "returns the current user's home directory, reading $HOME first" do Dir.home.should == "/rubyspec_home" end it "returns a non-frozen string" do Dir.home.should_not.frozen? end end describe "when called with the current user name" do platform_is :solaris do it "returns the named user's home directory from the user database" do Dir.home(ENV['USER']).should == `getent passwd #{ENV['USER']}|cut -d: -f6`.chomp end end platform_is_not :windows, :solaris, :android do it "returns the named user's home directory, from the user database" do Dir.home(ENV['USER']).should == `echo ~#{ENV['USER']}`.chomp end end it "returns a non-frozen string" do Dir.home(ENV['USER']).should_not.frozen? end end it "raises an ArgumentError if the named user doesn't exist" do -> { Dir.home('geuw2n288dh2k') }.should raise_error(ArgumentError) end end