OS version

ruby-talk
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Here what I use in my scripts to detect the OS

require ‘rbconfig’

class Helpers

[…]

def Helpers.platformIsWindows?
  Helpers.platformIsMSWin32? ||
    Helpers.platformIsMingw32? ||
    Helpers.platformIsCygwin?
end

def Helpers.platformIsCygwin?
  Config::CONFIG["arch"] =~ %r!.*cygwin!i 
end
def Helpers.platformIsMingw32?
  Config::CONFIG["arch"] =~ %r!.*mingw32!i 
end
def Helpers.platformIsMSWin32?
  Config::CONFIG["arch"] =~ %r!.*mswin32!i 
end

[…]

end

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kontra, Gergely [mailto:kgergely@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:28 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: RE: OS version

Is there a way to find out the OS version from ruby?
The above applies to *nix only. I don’t how to do it in Windows.
Well, the only thing I need it for is to detect windows :slight_smile: