clemens/tmpdir.rb

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Set environment variable so that Dir::tmpdir uses another temp directory

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	require 'fileutils'

	# force the whole app to use its own tmpdir
	FileUtils.mkdir_p(Rails.root.join('tmp'))
	ENV['TMPDIR'] = Rails.root.join('tmp')

michaeljoseph commented Oct 30, 2014

Based on this error:

TypeError: can't convert Pathname into String

I had to change the last line to the following:

ENV['TMPDIR'] = Rails.root.join('tmp').to_s

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