browser_detector

DESCRIPTION

Determines the name and version of the browser currently making a request.

The browser detector uses the HTTP user agent string to determine which browser is making the current request. The detector can determine the name, version, major version, minor version, build version and revision version of the current browser.

If using Rails, there are several view helpers available that use the BrowserDetector: g_browser_name(), g_browser_version(), g_browser_full_name() and g_browser_is?().

FEATURES

Detector class that can determine the browser name and version given a user agent string.
List of known user agents.
List of example user agent strings for each known user agent.

INSTALL

gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org
sudo gem install

INSTALL FOR RAILS

Add to environment file:

config.gem "browser_detector", :version => '1.0.0', :source => 'http://gemcutter.org'

USAGE

The following examples will assume Firefox 3.5.3 on OS/X is being used. The user agent string for Firefox 3.5.3 on OS/X is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3

Detector Class

@detector = BrowserDetector::Detector.new( request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] )
puts @detector.browser_name # firefox
puts @detector.browser_version # 3.5.3
puts @detector.full_name # Firefox 3.5.3
puts @detector.browser_is? :name => :firefox, :version => '3.5.3' # true
puts @detector.browser_is? :name => :firefox, :major_version => 3, :minor_version => '5', build_version => '3' # true

Within Rails Views

g_browser_name

<% if g_browser_name == 'firefox' %>
  ...

g_browser_version

<% if g_browser_version == '3.5.3' %>
  ...

g_browser_full_name

<%= g_browser_full_name # Outputs: Firefox 3.5.3 %>

g_browser_is?

<% if g_browser_is?( :name => 'firefox', :version => '3.5.3' ) %>
  ...

<% if g_browser_is?( :name => 'firefox', :major_version => '3' ) %>
  ...

<% if g_browser_is?( :name => :firefox, :major_version => 3, :minor_version => 5, :build_version => 3 ) %>
  ...

<% if g_browser_is?( :name => :firefox, :major_version => 3, :minor_version => 5, :build_version => 3, :revision_version => 0 ) %>
  ...

LICENSE

(The MIT License)

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