From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-12-22T07:22:48+09:00
Subject: Re: check if application exists



On Dec 21, 2:23 am, Al Og <arka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm launching external application from my ruby script
> using %x{application_name}
>
> I want to check if such application exists before launching.
> To check it on linux I can parse "which application_name" command
> output.
>
> But what about windows platform? Is there any crossplatform solution
> exists?

require 'ptools'
File.which('ruby')

Yep, works on Windows.

Regards,

Dan