Ruby loading config (yaml) file in same dir as source

Question

in HOME/path_test/ I have:

load_test.rb:

require \'yaml\'
cnf = YAML::load(File.open(\'config.yml\'))
puts cnf[\'Hello\']

config.ym

Answer 1

You should get path of the current file by:

cnf = YAML::load_file(File.join(File.dirname(File.expand_path(__FILE__)), 'config.yml'))

EDIT:

Since Ruby 2.0 you can simplify that and use:

cnf = YAML::load_file(File.join(__dir__, 'config.yml'))