Detect if your running on windows Code Snippets

Date added:06 July, 2011

Category:Rails

It's an unfortunate necessity that you need to write different code for windows sometimes or at the very least load different libraries since there is no fork(), etc. This is how you can tell.

Tags: load different libraries

# Returns true if we are running on a MS windows platform, false otherwise.

def Kernel.is_windows?
  processor, platform, *rest = RUBY_PLATFORM.split("-")
  platform == 'mswin32'
end

Detect if your running on windows

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