Cannot configure directory with path relative to `~`

[amar47shah]

After installing the exercism cli, I couldn't configure the exercism directory without specifying an absolute path.

In particular, I couldn't configure a path from the home directory using ~, as in the example given in the configuration instructions.

(Using zsh on OS X.)

➜  ~  exercism configure —key=<my_key>
The configuration has been written to /Users/amar/.exercism.json
Your exercism directory can be found at /Users/amar/exercism

➜  ~  exercism configure --dir="~/my_awesome_exercism_submissions"
The configuration has been written to /Users/amar/.exercism.json
Your exercism directory can be found at ~/my_awesome_exercism_submissions

I expected this to set my exercism directory as /Users/amar/my_awesome_exercism_submissions.

Instead it created a subdirectory actually called ~ in my home folder, as the parent of my exercism directory.

➜  ~  cd ./\~/my_awesome_exercism_submissions 
➜  my_awesome_exercism_submissions  pwd
/Users/amar/~/my_awesome_exercism_submissions

This is what I had in ~/.exercism.json:

{
  ...
  "dir": "~/my_awesome_exercism_submissions",
  ...
}

Using the absolute path fixed the problem:

➜  ~  exercism configure --dir="/Users/amar/my_awesome_exercism_submissions"
The configuration has been written to /Users/amar/.exercism.json
Your exercism directory can be found at /Users/amar/my_awesome_exercism_submissions
➜  ~  cat .exercism.json 
...
    "dir": "/Users/amar/my_awesome_exercism_submissions",
...
➜  ~  exercism fetch

Not Submitted:               23 problems
clojure (Bob)                /Users/amar/my_awesome_exercism_submissions/clojure/bob
...

Thanks, and sorry for being so verbose.

[kytrinyx]

Verbose is very useful, thanks for reporting this. I would have expected the code to replace ~/ correctly as well.

What version of exercism do you have? (exercism -version)

[Tonkpils]

I've confirmed the issue and have a patch ready. Updating a configuration wasn't expanding the home path.

[kytrinyx]

Ah, nice find!

[kytrinyx]

This is fixed in master, I'll put out a build in the next couple of days.

[amar47shah]

Thanks so much!