Getting hostname from ruby

[Berger_Daniel1 (Berger, Daniel)]

require "socket"
Socket.gethostname

Regards,

Dan

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Subject: getting hostname from ruby

Is there a cleaner way to get the host name from ruby other than
`hostname`?

phil