ruby--ruby/spec/ruby/core/dir/home_spec.rb

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.frozen?.should == false
    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 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']).frozen?.should == false
    end
  end

  it "raises an ArgumentError if the named user doesn't exist" do
    -> { Dir.home('geuw2n288dh2k') }.should raise_error(ArgumentError)
  end
end