Can anyone tell me how I can figure out from Ruby what platform I'm
running on? My Ruby program needs to know whether it's running on
linux, cygwin, windows etc...
Aslak
RUBY_PLATFORM
It's not perfect, but it's a good guess.
-austin
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On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:44:28 +0900, aslak hellesoy <aslak.hellesoy@gmail.com> wrote:
Can anyone tell me how I can figure out from Ruby what platform I'm
running on? My Ruby program needs to know whether it's running on
linux, cygwin, windows etc...
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aslak hellesoy wrote:
Can anyone tell me how I can figure out from Ruby what platform I'm
running on? My Ruby program needs to know whether it's running on
linux, cygwin, windows etc...
Use RUBY_PLATFORM or rbconfig.rb
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> RUBY_PLATFORM
=> "powerpc-darwin7.6.0"
irb(main):002:0>
Cheers,
Kent.
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On Dec 2, 2004, at 10:44 AM, aslak hellesoy wrote:
Can anyone tell me how I can figure out from Ruby what platform I'm
running on? My Ruby program needs to know whether it's running on
linux, cygwin, windows etc...Aslak
Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote in message news:<9e7db91104120207572417ae4f@mail.gmail.com>...
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On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:44:28 +0900, aslak hellesoy > <aslak.hellesoy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how I can figure out from Ruby what platform I'm
> running on? My Ruby program needs to know whether it's running on
> linux, cygwin, windows etc...RUBY_PLATFORM
It's not perfect, but it's a good guess.
-austin
For more detailed information, there is sys-uname. Available on the
RAA. Yes, it works on Windows, too. 
Regards,
Dan
Daniel Berger wrote:
Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote in message news:<9e7db91104120207572417ae4f@mail.gmail.com>...
Can anyone tell me how I can figure out from Ruby what platform I'm
running on? My Ruby program needs to know whether it's running on
linux, cygwin, windows etc...RUBY_PLATFORM
It's not perfect, but it's a good guess.
-austin
For more detailed information, there is sys-uname. Available on the
RAA. Yes, it works on Windows, too.Regards,
Dan
And there's always the quick-and-dirty approach that has been mentioned before, to differentiate between windows and everything else:
if File::ALT_SEPARATOR
puts "I'm on windows!"
else
puts "I'm not on windows!"
end
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On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:44:28 +0900, aslak hellesoy >><aslak.hellesoy@gmail.com> wrote:
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