From: djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)
Date: 2004-12-03T03:57:44+09:00
Subject: Re: figuring out what platform i'm on

Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote in message news:<9e7db91104120207572417ae4f@mail.gmail.com>...
> On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:44:28 +0900, aslak hellesoy
> <aslak.hellesoy@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me how I can figure out from Ruby what platform I'm
> > running on? My Ruby program needs to know whether it's running on
> > linux, cygwin, windows etc...
> 
> RUBY_PLATFORM
> 
> It's not perfect, but it's a good guess.
> 
> -austin

For more detailed information, there is sys-uname.  Available on the
RAA.  Yes, it works on Windows, too. :)

Regards,

Dan