From: Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
Date: 2000-12-16T11:58:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7378] Re: Getting name of OS ruby was built on



If you:

require 'rbconfig'
include Config

You'll be able to access a number of 
interesting variables:

  CONFIG["host"] = "i686-pc-linux"
  CONFIG["host_alias"] = "i686-pc-linux"
  CONFIG["host_cpu"] = "i686"
  CONFIG["host_vendor"] = "pc"
  CONFIG["host_os"] = "linux"
  CONFIG["target"] = "i686-pc-linux"
  CONFIG["target_alias"] = "i686-pc-linux"
  CONFIG["target_cpu"] = "i686"
  CONFIG["target_vendor"] = "pc"
  CONFIG["target_os"] = "linux"
  CONFIG["build"] = "i686-pc-linux"
  CONFIG["build_alias"] = "i686-pc-linux"
  CONFIG["build_cpu"] = "i686"
  CONFIG["build_vendor"] = "pc"
  CONFIG["build_os"] = "linux"

Hope this helps...

/\ndy


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