Is there a way to obtain the computer name using ruby?

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Hi, all

I am using ruby with watir to make some small scripts. I want to obtain
the name of the computer where my script is running from. Is there a
way to obtain the computer name using ruby?

Thanks

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Socket.gethostname

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Mike Johnson <freezingsmile@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, all

I am using ruby with watir to make some small scripts. I want to obtain
the name of the computer where my script is running from. Is there a
way to obtain the computer name using ruby?

Thanks
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Mike Johnson wrote:

Hi, all

I am using ruby with watir to make some small scripts. I want to obtain
the name of the computer where my script is running from. Is there a
way to obtain the computer name using ruby?

Thanks

Well, there's ENV['USERDOMAIN'], and ENV['LOGONSERVER'], taken from the
environment variables.

Those might not be useful in an LDAP / Active directory environment,
though. But then an LDAP gem should have an API to get the computer's name.

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Mike Johnson wrote:

Hi, all

I am using ruby with watir to make some small scripts. I want to obtain
the name of the computer where my script is running from. Is there a
way to obtain the computer name using ruby?

Thanks

name = `hostname`

More or less.

Don't recall if this works in Windows, but there should be something similar that returns machine info

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Glen Holcomb wrote:

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Mike Johnson <freezingsmile@gmail.com> > wrote:

Socket.gethostname

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so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

Did not know that one, thid works too:

ENV["COMPUTERNAME"]

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Thank you Glen! This is exactly what I want. :slight_smile:

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Thanks all for helping me!

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I would discourage using this approach as it is very error prone and not portable.

Kind regards

  robert

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On 15.04.2008 23:03, Siep Korteling wrote:

Glen Holcomb wrote:

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Mike Johnson <freezingsmile@gmail.com> >> wrote:

Socket.gethostname

--
"Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions speak
so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

Did not know that one, thid works too:

ENV["COMPUTERNAME"]