Is there a way to detect user agent in Rails 3.1 [duplicate]

Question

Possible Duplicate:
Auto detect mobile browser (via user-agent?)
Rails 3: HTTP_USER_AGENT

Is there a way to detect the user agent from a current visitor? I'm currently working on a project to display video files. But for the ipad, iphone / samsung galaxy tab / internet explorer / firefox. I need to display video's is there a solid way to check which browser is visiting my rails app?

Thanks guys!

Have you searched before asking this question? See this question. — rdvdijk
– rdvdijk, Commented Oct 4, 2011 at 16:10

Khaja Minhajuddin · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-09 08:50:00Z

75

Yep, just use this

request.env["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] #or request.user_agent

edited Sep 9, 2013 at 8:50

Khaja Minhajuddin

6,7517 gold badges49 silver badges47 bronze badges

answered Oct 4, 2011 at 16:16

CambridgeMike

4,6421 gold badge31 silver badges38 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

1 Comment

Nicolas Guillaume Over a year ago

I'm not sure that we can call that a "solid way" :p

Nicolas Guillaume · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-30 21:02:19Z

2

What about using a simple gem?

If I remember well, I used this one last time.

gem install user-agent

The same one on GitHub

I think that this is a good way to do it...

edited Jul 30, 2013 at 21:02

answered Oct 4, 2011 at 16:11

Nicolas Guillaume

8,5246 gold badges39 silver badges44 bronze badges

2 Comments

f0ster Over a year ago

LOL there's a gem for that.

Franklin Yu Over a year ago

That's a quite old gem which does not even include Windows 8, and it has only one single release on RubyGems. I would suggest useragent with operating system support up to Windows 10.

server info · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-04 16:14:29Z

you can do it also client site with jquery ... there is a plugin

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/client-detect

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Is there a way to detect user agent in Rails 3.1 [duplicate]

3 Answers 3

1 Comment

2 Comments

Comments

Linked

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

3 Answers 3

1 Comment

2 Comments

Comments

Linked

Related