Ruby - Is there a way to overwrite the FILE variable?

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Published on 2010-03-16T19:02:30Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 19:11 UTC
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I'm doing some unit testing, and some of the code is checking to see if files exist based on the relative path of the currently-executing script by using the FILE variable. I'm doing something like this:

if File.directory?(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'..','..','directory'))
    blah blah blah ...
else
    raise "Can't find directory"
end

I'm trying to find a way to make it fail in the unit tests without doing anything drastic. Being able to overwrite the __ FILE __ variable would be easiest, but as far as I can tell, it's impossible.

Any tips?

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