Please consider adding Pathname.home #37

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1. hsbt commented on Apr 16, 2024

   

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   I don't understand why you don't use Pathname.new(Dir.home). What's the problem that?
2. josb commented on Apr 16, 2024

   

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   It works, but is more verbose and I expected Pathname.home to work in the first place (POLA).

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3. knu commented on Apr 16, 2024

   

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   It'd be cool to have it aliased to ~.

   class Pathname
     class << self
       def home(user_name = nil)
         Pathname(Dir.home(user_name))
       end
   
       alias ~ home
     end
   end
   
   p Pathname.~         #=> #<Pathname:/Users/knu>
   p Pathname.~('root') #=> #<Pathname:/var/root>

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4. notEthan commented on Dec 10, 2024

   

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   I have wanted this as well. PR'd in #43 #70, maybe maintainers will accept it.

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5. der-scheme commented on Nov 13, 2025

   

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   I don't understand why you don't use Pathname.new(Dir.home). What's the problem that?

   It's surprising because Pathname already supports pwd, and is, as the OP stated, more verbose. Also, I don't want to interact with Dir and File at all, because using them doesn't feel elegant to me. I have had a Pathname#home monkey-patch in my own code for that reason.

   All functionality from File, FileTest, and some from Dir and FileUtils is included, in an unsurprising way. It is essentially a facade for all of these, and more.

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6. eregon commented on Nov 15, 2025

   

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   I'm +1 for this as well.
   (unsurprisingly I already added .home to my path-like gem too)

   I'm not sure about Pathname.~ because that looks weird syntactically, and ~ is a prefix operator yet ~Pathname doesn't make much sense. So I think just adding Pathname.home is best.

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7. eregon commented on Nov 15, 2025

   

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   Copying from #70 (comment) for visibility:

   I think you (or someone else) will need to create a ticket at https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ to get it merged though, given that Pathname will be in core in Ruby 4.0. Is that right @hsbt?