Rails: path of file

Question

I have inside app a directory called csv and inside this dir I have a file called names.csv I want to use File.read(path:string)

Answer 1

You should do: Rails.root.join "app", "csv", "names.csv"

Rails.root returns a PathName object. PathName has a join method which takes any number of arguments and appends it to the pathname to create the new path.

Read on PathName#join here:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/pathname/rdoc/Pathname.html#method-i-join