Is there a way to obtain the computer name using ruby?

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Hi, all

I am using ruby with watir to make some small scripts. I want to obtain
the name of the computer where my script is running from. Is there a
way to obtain the computer name using ruby?

Thanks

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Mike J. [email protected]
wrote:

Socket.gethostname

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Glen H. wrote:

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Mike J. [email protected]
wrote:

Socket.gethostname

–
“Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions
speak
so loud, I can’t hear a word you’re saying.”

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

Did not know that one, thid works too:

ENV[“COMPUTERNAME”]

regards,

Siep

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Mike J. wrote:
| Hi, all
|
| I am using ruby with watir to make some small scripts. I want to obtain
| the name of the computer where my script is running from. Is there a
| way to obtain the computer name using ruby?
|
| Thanks

Well, there’s ENV[‘USERDOMAIN’], and ENV[‘LOGONSERVER’], taken from the
environment variables.

Those might not be useful in an LDAP / Active directory environment,
though. But then an LDAP gem should have an API to get the computer’s
name.

Phillip G.
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Mike J. wrote:

Hi, all

I am using ruby with watir to make some small scripts. I want to obtain
the name of the computer where my script is running from. Is there a
way to obtain the computer name using ruby?

Thanks

name = hostname

More or less.

Don’t recall if this works in Windows, but there should be something
similar that returns machine info

–
James B.

“Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers.”

  • Voltaire
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Thank you Glen! This is exactly what I want. :slight_smile:

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Thanks all for helping me!

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On 15.04.2008 23:03, Siep K. wrote:

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

Did not know that one, thid works too:

ENV[“COMPUTERNAME”]

I would discourage using this approach as it is very error prone and not
portable.

Kind regards

robert