Rubyisms (#1)

You won't find C-like #ifdefs (conditional compilation) in Ruby. The following approach can be used instead.

if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /linux/
  def method_name
  .... # linux-specific code
  end
elsif RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /win32/
  def method_name
  .... # win32-specific code
  end
else
  def method_name
  ....
  end
end

Based on code from The Ruby Way by Hal Fulton.

Comments

[Anonymous]

This is really cool.