whereami gets confused in a Dir.chdir block
Author: dtenenbaCreated May 4, 2014Updated Oct 1, 2025
Hello, I have the following script foo.rb:
require 'tmpdir'
require 'pry'
tmpdir = Dir.mktmpdir
Dir.chdir tmpdir do
puts "type whereami now"
binding.pry
endIf I run it like this:
ruby foo.rbThen when I get dropped into pry I type 'whereami' and see:
[1] pry(main)> whereami
Error: Cannot open "/private/var/folders/jz/_76qjszd4db7drk0sm2vfn5h0000gn/T/d20140504-37098-1vehyq/foo.rb" for reading.Is there any way around that? Can whereami work off the directory it was in when the script was invoked, not the one it's in when binding.pry is invoked?
I also use pry as a debugger with pry-nav, and experience the same problem when I step into a Dir.chdir block.
Source: pry/pry