Redmine

The .../config/boot.rb file that ships with Redmine does not work well with symlinked directories. Specifically, during packaging for Debian I needed to replace .../vendors/rails with the Debian equivalent. Symlinking .../vendor/rails -> /usr/share/rails broke Redmine so that it wouldn't find the Rails install at all.

The attached patch uses the expand_path() function on the File object to pre-expand the symlinks so they don't cause problems later. This shouldn't affect anything else although I have only tested it on Debian Lenny, not Windows or any other flavor of Unix. If there is a better way to do this then please let me know and I'll update my package.

Thanx!
Richard