Easiest way to determine OS?

[Wes Gamble]

What's the easiest way to figure out if you are on a Windows vs. UNIX
platform in Ruby from within a Ruby program?

Thanks,
Wes

 

[Brad Tilley]

What's the easiest way to figure out if you are on a Windows vs. UNIX
platform in Ruby from within a Ruby program?

Try this:

irb(main):005:0> puts RUBY_PLATFORM
powerpc-darwin8.0

 

[Victor \Zverok\ Shepelev]

From: (e-mail address removed) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Brad Tilley
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 11:25 PM

Try this:

irb(main):005:0> puts RUBY_PLATFORM
powerpc-darwin8.0

Not very useful sometimes:

irb(main):001:0> puts RUBY_PLATFORM
i386-mswin32_71
(1) (2) (3)(4)

Here's encoded: CPU architecture (1), OS (2), CPU bits (3), compiler (4 -
it's MS Visual Studio 7.1)

Pasing this on every platform may become a pain.

v.