Question

In a previous question, I asked how to tell my Gemfile whether to take the JRuby-relevant gems or the MRI-relevant gems. The answer I got was to do the following in the Gemfile:

platforms :jruby do
  gem "activerecord-jdbcsqlite3-adapter"
end

platforms :mri do
  gem "sqlite3"
end

Obviously, the platforms() method in Bundler knows how to figure out if I’m running MRI or JRuby. Is there another way I can tell within my program if I am running JRuby or MRI?

Answer 1

Are you able to distinguish between the two like this:

case (RUBY_ENGINE)
when 'ruby'
  # ...
when 'jruby'
  # ...
end

You could write a method to give you a jruby? method if required:

def jruby?
  RUBY_ENGINE == 'jruby'
end