From: Ken Allen <kallen19918@...>
Date: 2006-12-04T04:35:17+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get operating system type info

Dao Shi wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm writing a software building script in Ruby for Unix and Windows.
>
> I want to know the type of the platform that my script is running on -
> whether it's Windows, Linux or MacOSX. I need to do something special
> for different os.
>
> Is there any way to get this without hacking by myself?  Google gave me
> nothing useful.
>
> Thanks,
> D
>
>   
The RUBY_PLATFORM constant is what you want.

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

Ken