Im new to ruby and trying to learn by building a small app for mac osx.
So far I love it. However, one thing I want to do is to detect the
current user (of the app's) system directory name ie -
/Users/johnsmith/... - johnsmith being what I want get.
One way I tried was to use a system call such as
system("Users")
but although this will output the current user in the console it will
not store the name as a variable because, as im sure you know, the
system call returns a boolean and not the result of the call.
Im new to ruby and trying to learn by building a small app for mac osx.
So far I love it. However, one thing I want to do is to detect the
current user (of the app's) system directory name ie -
/Users/johnsmith/... - johnsmith being what I want get.
One way I tried was to use a system call such as
system("Users")
but although this will output the current user in the console it will
not store the name as a variable because, as im sure you know, the
system call returns a boolean and not the result of the call.
I'm running on OS X, too. Here is what works for me in getting user environment info:
user = ENV['USER'] # user login name
home = ENV['HOME'] # user login path
The second seems to be what you are looking for.
Regards, Morton
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On Aug 20, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Ryan Kaye wrote:
Im new to ruby and trying to learn by building a small app for mac osx.
So far I love it. However, one thing I want to do is to detect the
current user (of the app's) system directory name ie -
/Users/johnsmith/... - johnsmith being what I want get.
One way I tried was to use a system call such as
system("Users")
but although this will output the current user in the console it will
not store the name as a variable because, as im sure you know, the
system call returns a boolean and not the result of the call.
It works on any Unix system, not only on Mac OS X. Not sure about
Windows, though.
Enjoy
Gennady.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Morton Goldberg [mailto:m_goldberg@ameritech.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 12:25 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: detect user
I'm running on OS X, too. Here is what works for me in getting user
environment info:
user = ENV['USER'] # user login name
home = ENV['HOME'] # user login path
The second seems to be what you are looking for.
Regards, Morton
On Aug 20, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Ryan Kaye wrote:
> Im new to ruby and trying to learn by building a small app for mac
> osx.
> So far I love it. However, one thing I want to do is to detect the
> current user (of the app's) system directory name ie -
> /Users/johnsmith/... - johnsmith being what I want get.
>
> One way I tried was to use a system call such as
>
> system("Users")
>
> but although this will output the current user in the
console it will
> not store the name as a variable because, as im sure you know, the
> system call returns a boolean and not the result of the call.
>
> Anybody know of an alternative way.
