From: Joey <rubytalk@...>
Date: 2006-08-21T03:48:28+09:00
Subject: Re: detect user

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You can use ``, like:
users = `Users`.chomp OR
user = `whoami`.chomp

j`ey
http://www.eachmapinject.com

On 8/20/06, Ryan Kaye <ryankaye@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Im new to ruby and trying to learn by building a small app for mac osx.
> So far I love it. However, one thing I want to do is to detect the
> current user (of the app's) system directory name ie -
> /Users/johnsmith/... - johnsmith being what I want get.
>
> One way I tried was to use a system call such as
>
> system("Users")
>
> but although this will output the current user in the console it will
> not store the name as a variable because, as im sure you know, the
> system call returns a boolean and not the result of the call.
>
> Anybody know of an alternative way.
>
> Cheers
>
> R
>
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