From: Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...>
Date: 2004-12-03T04:19:46+09:00
Subject: Re: figuring out what platform i'm on

Daniel Berger wrote:
> 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

And there's always the quick-and-dirty approach that has been mentioned 
before, to differentiate between windows and everything else:

   if File::ALT_SEPARATOR
     puts "I'm on windows!"
   else
     puts "I'm not on windows!"
   end

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