Which Ruby is in use?

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How can I tell from within a running program which interpreter is being
used -- i.e. MRI, REE, etc.?

RUBY_VERSION only returns a number, .e.g. "1.8.7".

TIA,

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RUBY_DESCRIPTION will give you something like this:

ruby-1.9.2-p0 > RUBY_DESCRIPTION
=> "ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18 revision 29036) [x86_64-darwin10.4.0]"
ree-1.8.7-2010.02 > RUBY_DESCRIPTION
=> "ruby 1.8.7 (2010-04-19 patchlevel 253) [i686-darwin10.4.0], MBARI
0x6770, Ruby Enterprise Edition 2010.02"

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The RUBY_ENGINE constant should define this, but I'm not sure wheather
it's already in 1.8.

Vale,
Marvin

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Am 27.01.2011 18:14, schrieb Hassan Schroeder:

How can I tell from within a running program which interpreter is being
used -- i.e. MRI, REE, etc.?

RUBY_VERSION only returns a number, .e.g. "1.8.7".

TIA,

4

If you're using RVM, there is also some good stuff in the ENV hash.

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Hassan Schroeder < hassan.schroeder@gmail.com> wrote:

How can I tell from within a running program which interpreter is being
used -- i.e. MRI, REE, etc.?

RUBY_VERSION only returns a number, .e.g. "1.8.7".

TIA,
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5

Ah, that's it -- I know I've seen that before, but couldn't dredge it out
of the musty corners -- thanks much! :slight_smile:

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com> wrote:

RUBY_DESCRIPTION

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The RUBY_ENGINE constant should define this, but I'm not sure wheather
it's already in 1.8.

That doesn't appear to be defined in at least this Mac's MRI 1.8.7.

RUBY_VERSION

=> "1.8.7"

RUBY_DESCRIPTION

=> "ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0]"

RUBY_ENGINE

NameError: uninitialized constant RUBY_ENGINE

Thanks for pointing it out, though.

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Quintus <sutniuq@gmx.net> wrote:
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You might find Object.constants.grep(/RUBY/) useful to remind yourself.

$ ruby -e 'Object.constants.grep(/RUBY/).each { |c| puts "#{c} =>
#{Object.const_get(c)}" }'

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Hassan Schroeder < hassan.schroeder@gmail.com> wrote:

Ah, that's it -- I know I've seen that before, but couldn't dredge it out
of the musty corners -- thanks much! :slight_smile:

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No worries. Here's how I found it:

irb
RUBY_<tab><tab><tab><tab>

Then I tried a few of the results. :slight_smile:

9

D'oh! Thanks for the reminder. Apparently I needed a lot more coffee
this morning...

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Adam Prescott <mentionuse@gmail.com> wrote:

You might find Object.constants.grep(/RUBY/) useful to remind yourself.

$ ruby -e 'Object.constants.grep(/RUBY/).each { |c| puts "#{c} =>
#{Object.const_get(c)}" }'

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