How can I get the Ruby version from within a Ruby script?

[Paul]

I want to log the current Ruby version to a log file along with the
script version, but I don't know how to get the Ruby version from
within a running script.

I tried:
puts system("ruby -v")

but that only returns "true" from within a script. (I see the correct
output when I run it in IRB, but the script doesn't capture that.)

I also tried :
puts Config::CONFIG["ruby_version"]

but that returns "1.8" and I would like "1.8.x".

Any suggestions? Please let me know. Thanks.

 

[Phil Meier]

I want to log the current Ruby version to a log file along with the
script version, but I don't know how to get the Ruby version from
within a running script.

Just use constant RUBY_VERSION.

puts RUBY_VERSION
=> 1.8.6

 

[John Joyce]

I want to log the current Ruby version to a log file along with the
script version, but I don't know how to get the Ruby version from
within a running script.

I tried:
puts system("ruby -v")

but that only returns "true" from within a script. (I see the correct
output when I run it in IRB, but the script doesn't capture that.)

I also tried :
puts Config::CONFIG["ruby_version"]

but that returns "1.8" and I would like "1.8.x".

Any suggestions? Please let me know. Thanks.

the constant VERSION will return the version number (only)
puts "Ruby version #{VERSION}"

 

[Stefano Crocco]

Alle luned=EC 16 luglio 2007, Paul ha scritto:

I want to log the current Ruby version to a log file along with the
script version, but I don't know how to get the Ruby version from
within a running script.

I tried:
puts system("ruby -v")

but that only returns "true" from within a script. (I see the correct
output when I run it in IRB, but the script doesn't capture that.)

I also tried :
puts Config::CONFIG["ruby_version"]

but that returns "1.8" and I would like "1.8.x".

Any suggestions? Please let me know. Thanks.

You can try

puts(RUBY_VERSION)

By the way, if you need to get the output of an external command, you need =
to=20
use `cmd`, instead of system("cmd").

Stefano

 

[Axel Etzold]

Paul,

this works for me:

result= `ruby -v`
p 'my result'
p result

Best regards,

Axel

 

[Paul Knight]

this works for me:

result= `ruby -v`
p 'my result'
p result

Unfortunately, this grabs the version of some Ruby, not necessarily
the one currently running. The RUBY_VERSION constant is what you
probably want.

Paul Knight (A different Paul than the OP)

 

[Paul]

Just use constant RUBY_VERSION.

puts RUBY_VERSION
=> 1.8.6

That's perfect! Thank you.

I don't know why Google didn't turn that up anywhere. I even checked
the Pickaxe book but I didn't find it under "V" for 'version'.

Cheers!

 

[Robert Klemme]

That's perfect! Thank you.

I don't know why Google didn't turn that up anywhere. I even checked
the Pickaxe book but I didn't find it under "V" for 'version'.

Since the version is a good candidate for a constant you can try this:

Robert@Babelfish2 ~
$ ruby -e 'Object.constants.sort.each {|c| cv=Object.const_get(c); print
c, "=", cv, "\n" unless Module === cv}'
ARGF=ARGF
ARGV=
ENV=ENV
FALSE=false
NIL=nil
PLATFORM=i386-cygwin
RELEASE_DATE=2007-03-13
RUBY_PATCHLEVEL=0
RUBY_PLATFORM=i386-cygwin
RUBY_RELEASE_DATE=2007-03-13
RUBY_VERSION=1.8.6
STDERR=#<IO:0x100362d0>
STDIN=#<IO:0x100362f8>
STDOUT=#<IO:0x100362e4>
TOPLEVEL_BINDING=#<Binding:0x100302a4>
TRUE=true
VERSION=1.8.6

Robert@Babelfish2 ~
$

Or just use IRB.

Kind regards

robert