From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack@...>
Date: 2009-05-29T22:14:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23622] Re: Meaning of RUBY_PLATFORM

>> �>> Rubinius::COMPILER
>> => :gcc
>> �>> Rubinius::COMPILER_VERSION
>> => "4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490)"
>>
>>
>> Thoughts on either of those?
>
> I'm not convinced that this functionality needs to be bundled with Ruby. You
> could use the 'ohai' library to obtain a lot of system information.

ohai doesn't seem to give you the compiler version used to compile a
specific version of ruby.  The kicker is that only a few people will
ever use those constants (how often do you care what compiler was
used?) but...it's vaguely useful I suppose.
-=r