From: Ron Fox <fox@...>
Date: 2008-03-03T22:39:59+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I get the server name?

How about

require "socket"
...

host_name = Socket::gethostname


RF
laredotornado wrote:
> On Mar 2, 4:48 pm, Jano Svitok <jan.svi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Andrei Maxim <and...@andreimaxim.ro> wrote:
>>>  I was actually surprised to see that ENV.class returns Object. It
>>>  certainly acts like a Hash so...
>> http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/rubyworld.html#S3
> 
> Thanks all for your replies but there's something odd.  I guess I'm
> still confused about how to access values from this thing that is not
> quite a hash.  In irb, I did as Andrei suggested and thought I saw a
> HOSTNAME key, but when I try and print out the value ("puts
> ENV['HOSTNAME']"), I get nil.  Why does it appear when I print out the
> hash but not when I try and access the value individually?
>