From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-08-16T01:06:00+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get Windows user name?

On Aug 14, 4:50 pm, Mike Johnson <freezingsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> I am trying to detect the user who's currently login the Windows system.
> Is there way to do it in Ruby?

This is the one function of the 'etc' library that works on Windows:

require 'etc'
puts Etc.getlogin

Or, you can use the sys-admin library, which provides much more
functionality on Windows:

gem install sys-admin
require 'sys/admin'

puts Sys::Admin.get_login

Regards,

Dan