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How to find out the OS that your ruby script is currently running on

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How to find out the OS that your ruby script is currently running on

ireland100	18 Jun, 2007 - 09:32 AM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 18 Jun, 2007 Posts: 2 My Contributions	Can somebody please tell me what is the code to find out the OS that your ruby script is running on. This script will be running on Windows OS only
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rahulbatra	18 Jun, 2007 - 11:45 PM Post #2
D.I.C Head Joined: 28 Dec, 2005 Posts: 156 Dream Kudos: 275 My Contributions	A good idea is to execute CODE puts ENV['OS'] For Windows systems, the output would be Windows_NT. However this will return you an empty string for Linux. For further probing, you can use the following line, CODE puts RUBY_PLATFORM which will give you the output i386-mswin32 for x86 Windows machines. Linux systems will output "linux" instead of "mswin32" in this case.
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ireland100	19 Jun, 2007 - 01:50 AM Post #3
New D.I.C Head Joined: 18 Jun, 2007 Posts: 2 My Contributions	Thanks for that rahulbatra
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