From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-02-14T05:24:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Checking the name of the host Operating System

On Feb 13, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Sonny Chee wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
> Anyone know how I can determine the name of the host operating system
> from within Ruby?

Sure:

 >> RUBY_PLATFORM
=> "i686-darwin8.8.1"
 >> require "rbconfig"
=> false
 >> Config::CONFIG["target"]
=> "i686-apple-darwin8.8.1"
 >> Config::CONFIG["arch"]
=> "i686-darwin8.8.1"
 >> Config::CONFIG["target_os"]
=> "darwin8.8.1"

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II