From: Stefan Mahlitz <stefan@...>
Date: 2005-11-14T16:22:40+09:00
Subject: Re: detect if windows or linux

Alexander Fleck wrote:
> Hi,
> what' s the best way to detect if I' m on a windows or linux machine. I don' t want to check that by handling an exception. Is there a function in the standard libraries.
> Thanks,
> Alex.

There is the constant RUBY_PLATFORM, on my WinXP-box it contains the
string 'i386-mswin32', my debian has 'i386-linux'.