From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-03-04T18:34:48+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I get the server name?

laredotornado wrote:
>
> 
> 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?
> 
> Here's the irb action:
> 
> irb(main):068:0* ENV.each { |key, value| puts "#{key} - #{value}" }
> USER - myusername
> LOGNAME - myusername
> HOME - /home/myusername
> PATH - /usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/myusername/
> bin
> MAIL - /var/spool/mail/myusername
> SHELL - /bin/zsh
> SSH_CLIENT - 67.190.94.163 61497 22
> SSH_CONNECTION - 67.190.94.163 61497 192.168.1.99 22
> SSH_TTY - /dev/pts/1
> TERM - xterm
> SHLVL - 1
> PWD - /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/easyrx/app/controllers
> OLDPWD - /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/easyrx/app
> HOSTNAME - mydomain.com
> HISTSIZE - 1000
> INPUTRC - /etc/inputrc
> LS_COLORS -
> 

Why did you think leaving out the:

puts ENV['HOSTNAME']

as the next statement would help prove your point?
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