From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-07-17T23:20:54+09:00
Subject: Re: get host name

Mark Volkmann wrote:
> How can I get the host name for the machine I'm running on from Ruby code?
> I don't want to exec a Unix command to do this because I want it to
> also work under Windows.
> I want this for building a server URL that I'll be using with drb.
> I don't want to hardcode a host name.

require "socket"
puts Socket.gethostname

Regards,

Dan