Is there a way to detect user agent in Rails 3.1

Question

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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!

Solution 1

Yep, just use this

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

Solution 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...

Comments

[Nicolas Guillaume]

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

[f0ster]

LOL there's a gem for that.

[Franklin Yu]

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.