From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T03:40:32+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I tell when I'm on Cygwin?

On 10/24/06, Nick Sieger <nicksieger@gmail.com> wrote:

> I /think/ RUBY_PLATFORM is different for cygwin than the pure windows
> version, but I don't have a cygwin install nearby to confirm.  Perhaps

Via One click installer in regular windows:

irb(main):001:0> RUBY_PLATFORM
=> "i386-mswin32"

On CYGWIN:

irb(main):001:0> RUBY_PLATFORM
=> "i386-cygwin"