From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-16T12:10:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7381] Re: Getting name of OS ruby was built on

ptkwt@user2.teleport.com (Phil Tomson) writes:

> Anybody know how I would be able to get a string that contains the name of
> the operating system that the currently running ruby was built on?  I need
> to be able to determine this since the program will be running on several
> different OS's and I need to do different things depending on where its
> running.

The constant RUBY_PLATFORM gives you the platform used to build the
version of Ruby. On my box:

        irb(main):005:0> PLATFORM
        "i686-linux"


Regards

Dave