From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-10-15T04:25:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Get system name



On Oct 14, 12:03 pm, The Higgs bozo <higgs.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Victor Goff wrote:
> > Check out the Ruby Constants... PLATFORM could be one.
>
> The constant is RUBY_PLATFORM.

I recommend against this because of JRuby (and probably IronRuby).
JRuby, for example, will return "java" for RUBY_PLATFORM.

> If more info is needed, check the output of this,
>
> require 'rbconfig'
> require 'pp'
> pp Config::CONFIG

There you go. Take a look at Config['host_os'].

Regards,

Dan