From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2009-05-29T04:30:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23600] Re: Meaning of RUBY_PLATFORM



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick DeNatale [mailto:rick.denatale@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:41 PM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: [ruby-core:23595] Meaning of RUBY_PLATFORM
> 
> The RUBY_PLATFORM constant is documented in the latest Pickaxe as "The
> identifier of the platform running this program."
> 
> Actually it appears to actually be the identifier of the platform on
> which ruby was compiled.

It depends on how you define "platform" I suppose. JRuby will return "java".
I can only guess what IronRuby, Maglev, etc, return for this value.

Regards,

Dan