From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2010-01-16T08:24:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Foolproof way of determining host platform

Other options:

  require 'rubygems'
  Gem::Platform.local

Shameless ripoff with some minor improvements:

  require 'facets/platform'
  Platform.local

The OS gem looks promising.

My question is why isn't something like this a standard part of Ruby?