getting user login name

[Yvon Thoraval]

As a first trial within ruby, i'd like to make a verys simple
installer/uninstaller (on MacOS X).

For that purpose, i need to get the user login name in order to build a
path.

from command line i get that name by :
% users

yvonthor

how could i get the same within ruby ???

 

[gabriele renzi]

il Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:37:14 +0200,
(e-mail address removed) (Yvon Thoraval) ha
scritto::

As a first trial within ruby, i'd like to make a verys simple
installer/uninstaller (on MacOS X).

For that purpose, i need to get the user login name in order to build a
path.

from command line i get that name by :
% users

how could i get the same within ruby ???

not sure if this woeks on MacOSX, but I think it should:

On my box:
require 'etc'
Etc.getlogin #=> "gabriele"

BTW you could always do
username=`users`
to use the OS command

 

[Yvon Thoraval]

On my box:
require 'etc'
Etc.getlogin #=> "gabriele"

tanxs a lot, this one works fine

BTW you could always do
username=`users`
to use the OS command

giving :
irb(main):001:0> username=`users`
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):1: parse error
username=
^
from (irb):1


probably the ` wasn't correct ?
i had to type in ` followed by a space to get it ?

anyway, one solution is enough to me...