Rails Root directory path?
Ruby on-RailsRuby on-Rails Problem Overview
How do I get my Rails app's root directory path?
Ruby on-Rails Solutions
Solution 1 - Ruby on-Rails
In Rails 3 and newer:
Rails.root
which returns a Pathname
object. If you want a string you have to add .to_s
. If you want another path in your Rails app, you can use join
like this:
Rails.root.join('app', 'assets', 'images', 'logo.png')
In Rails 2 you can use the RAILS_ROOT
constant, which is a string.
Solution 2 - Ruby on-Rails
For super correctness, you should use:
Rails.root.join('foo','bar')
which will allow your app to work on platforms where /
is not the directory separator, should anyone try and run it on one.
Solution 3 - Ruby on-Rails
You can access rails app path using variable RAILS_ROOT
.
For example:
render :file => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/layouts/mylayout.html.erb"
Solution 4 - Ruby on-Rails
In addition to all the other correct answers, since Rails.root
is a Pathname
object, this won't work:
Rails.root + '/app/assets/...'
You could use something like join
Rails.root.join('app', 'assets')
If you want a string use this:
Rails.root.join('app', 'assets').to_s
Solution 5 - Ruby on-Rails
In some cases you may want the Rails root without having to load Rails.
For example, you get a quicker feedback cycle when TDD'ing models that do not depend on Rails by requiring spec_helper
instead of rails_helper
.
# spec/spec_helper.rb
require 'pathname'
rails_root = Pathname.new('..').expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__))
[
rails_root.join('app', 'models'),
# Add your decorators, services, etc.
].each do |path|
$LOAD_PATH.unshift path.to_s
end
Which allows you to easily load Plain Old Ruby Objects from their spec files.
# spec/models/poro_spec.rb
require 'spec_helper'
require 'poro'
RSpec.describe ...
Solution 6 - Ruby on-Rails
module Rails
def self.root
File.expand_path("..", __dir__)
end
end
Solution 7 - Ruby on-Rails
You can use:
Rails.root
But to to join the assets you can use:
Rails.root.join(*%w( app assets))
Hopefully this helps you.
Solution 8 - Ruby on-Rails
Simply by Rails.root or if you want append something we can use it like Rails.root.join('app', 'assets').to_s
Solution 9 - Ruby on-Rails
Simply By writing Rails.root and append anything by Rails.root.join(*%w( app assets)).to_s