From: "Daniel Schömer" <daniel.schoemer@...>
Date: 2008-05-01T00:40:16+09:00
Subject: Re: determining what os is running

Hi!

Stephen Bannasch wrote:
> [...]
>
> I'd love to know what people get on other Ruby VMs (1.8, 1.9. 
> Rubinius) and other host OS's get as output running this script:
> 
> require 'rbconfig'
> puts "Ruby Info:"
> puts " RUBY_PLATFORM: #{RUBY_PLATFORM}"
> puts " RUBY_VERSION: #{RUBY_VERSION}"
> puts " Config::CONFIG['RUBY_INSTALL_NAME']: 
> #{Config::CONFIG['RUBY_INSTALL_NAME']}"
> puts " Config::CONFIG['host_os']: #{Config::CONFIG['host_os']}"
>
> [...]

I'm running Gentoo/Linux on AMD Athlon X2 CPU (32-bit).

# ruby a.rb
Ruby Info:
 RUBY_PLATFORM: i686-linux
 RUBY_VERSION: 1.8.6
 Config::CONFIG['RUBY_INSTALL_NAME']: ruby18
 Config::CONFIG['host_os']: linux-gnu

# ruby19 a.rb
Ruby Info:
 RUBY_PLATFORM: i686-linux
 RUBY_VERSION: 1.9.0
 Config::CONFIG['RUBY_INSTALL_NAME']: ruby19
 Config::CONFIG['host_os']: linux-gnu

# jruby a.rb
Ruby Info:
 RUBY_PLATFORM: java
 RUBY_VERSION: 1.8.6
 Config::CONFIG['RUBY_INSTALL_NAME']: jruby
 Config::CONFIG['host_os']: linux

ruby   is ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i686-linux]
ruby19 is ruby 1.9.0 (2008-04-28 revision 16233) [i686-linux]
          svn trunk
jruby  is ruby 1.8.6 (2008-04-29 rev 6586) [i386-jruby1.1.1+]
          svn trunk

Daniel