get host name

[Mark Volkmann]

How can I get the host name for the machine I'm running on from Ruby code?
I don't want to exec a Unix command to do this because I want it to
also work under Windows.
I want this for building a server URL that I'll be using with drb.
I don't want to hardcode a host name.

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R. Mark Volkmann
Partner, Object Computing, Inc.

 

[Daniel Berger]

How can I get the host name for the machine I'm running on from Ruby code?
I don't want to exec a Unix command to do this because I want it to
also work under Windows.
I want this for building a server URL that I'll be using with drb.
I don't want to hardcode a host name.

require "socket"
puts Socket.gethostname

Regards,

Dan