From: wys@... (Clemens Wyss)
Date: 2001-01-17T16:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9415] Gathering Ruby version

Hi,
is there a way to get the Ruby  version (or even better the build string)
from within a script?
The one solution which comes to my mind is IO.popen("ruby --version", 
"r")... 
Regards
Clemens