From: unbewusst.sein@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Une_B=E9v?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ue?=) Date: 2007-11-30T07:20:57+09:00 Subject: Re: how to know the platform ? Kyle Schmitt wrote: > You can get the sysutils package (http://sysutils.rubyforge.org/) for > some quick and easy access to that sort of thing. The downside is > almost all of them are very gems dependent, so its difficult to > install them standalone. hum, I'll see what's inside sys-uname-0.8.2... i've found "tc_uname.rb" giving some light on what to check in RUBY_PLATFORM i think there is no need, for me, to install sys-uname. thanks for your reply ! > Sys/Uname (Has some or all of the stuff you want, and is quite usefull) [...] > Sys::Uname.sysname > => "Linux" > Sys::Uname.version > => "#1 SMP Mon Oct 22 08:32:04 EDT 2007" Ok, it's just what i want. -- Une B�vue