Platform

author: Matt Mower <self@mattmower.com> license: LGPL

The Platform library offers a simple, reliable, means of determining what platform Ruby is running on. Underlying Platform is the RUBY_PLATFORM constant. This library is parsing this constant for information. You could easily do this yourself. We've just taken the hassle out of it for you and hopefully covered a few of the more unusual cases you mightn't have thought of yourself.

On the other hand, if you've got cases we haven't please mail the authors.

Use

require 'platform'

defines

Platform::OS

:unix
:win32
:vms
:os2
:unknown

Platform::IMPL

:macosx
:linux
:freebsd
:netbsd
:mswin
:cygwin
:mingw
:bccwin
:wince
:vms
:os2
:unknown

Platform::ARCH

:x86
:ia64
:powerpc
:alpha
:unknown