class Raykit::Environment

def self.root_dir

otherwise defaults to the user home directory
May be set using the environment variable DEV_ROOT,
The root directory for the development environment. 
def self.root_dir
  if ENV["DEV_ROOT"].nil?
    Environment.home_dir
  else
    root = ENV["DEV_ROOT"].gsub("\\", "/").chomp("/")
    normalize_path(root)
  end
end