Not sure if I understood your question right.
console.log(__dirname) in app.js which is in the path /home/myuser/app.js
will return /home/myuser.
Isn't this what you intend.
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Alan Hoffmeister <alanhoffmeis...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> __dirname return the path of the script that is calling it, not the app
> root path...
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> 2012/5/26 Anand George <mranandgeo...@gmail.com>
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>> If you need to find the app path couldn't you just use __dirname.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Alan Hoffmeister <
>> alanhoffmeis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think that I got the answer:
>>>
>>> //mymodyle.js
>>> path = require('path');
>>> exports.path = path.dirname(process.mainModule.filename);
>>>
>>> Can I trust on the information passed by process.mainModule.filename?
>>>
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>>> 2012/5/26 Alan Hoffmeister <alanhoffmeis...@gmail.com>
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>>>> @mscdex Thanks, but what if the parent is inside a folder on the main
>>>> path? It would return /home/myuser/somefolder instead of /home/mysuser.
>>>>
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>>>> 2012/5/26 mscdex <msc...@gmail.com>
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>>>>> On May 26, 9:13 pm, Alan Hoffmeister <alanhoffmeis...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > How can I get the main path of the app?
>>>>>
>>>>> // module
>>>>> var path = require('path');
>>>>>
>>>>> exports.path = function() {
>>>>> return path.dirname(module.parent.filename);
>>>>> };
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