From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-17T05:43:12+09:00
Subject: Re: finding which OS?

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Luke Kanies wrote:

> On Nov 16, 2006, at 3:17 AM, dc wrote:
>
>> hi -
>> 
>> is there a way to find which OS Ruby is running on?
>
> Facter[1] does this and much more:
>
> luke@midden(0) $ irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'facter'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> Facter.value(:operatingsystem)
> => "Darwin"
> irb(main):003:0> Facter.macaddress
> => "00:0a:95:96:5f:64"
> irb(main):004:0> Facter.to_hash.each do |p, v| next if p =~ /key/; puts "%s
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

can you explain that?  custom .to_s?

seems like you should be able to do

   y Facter.table('key')  # or :key

for similar effect, or some such


looks very cool btw - i didn't know about Facter.

cheers.


-a
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