open os family method

[zlx]

Hi, @peteygao

Great gem, I want to replace user_agent.

But I face a small problem now, I want to get os.family and find it private.

Do you have plan to open the information? Thank you very much.

[peteygao]

@zlx Sorry, can you explain what you mean by "replace user_agent"?

Do you mean something like?:

device = DeviceDetector.new "user agent string"
...
device.update_user_agent "new user agent string"

There is currently no plans for supporting such an operation, you can simply new up a new instance of DeviceDetector for your new user_agent.

As for your second question, you can use client.os_name to get the OS Family name. e.g.:

client = DeviceDetector.new "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0"
client.os_name # => 'Mac'

[zlx]

@peteygao I'm sorry make you confuse. I just mean use this gem replace UserAgent, which I used to detect os and browser before.

And now I want to direct get os family by

client.os.family

but it raise

NoMethodError: private method `os' called for #DeviceDetector:0x007ff4bb618200

I want to know Do you have plan to open the information? Thank you very much.

[peteygao]

@zlx Please see my second example, you can obtain the OS Family name by calling os_name on the instance DeviceDetector.new returns.

I am not familiar with "UserAgent" gem--what information does calling client.os.family return in UserAgent?

[peteygao]

@zlx Did my previous comment solve your issue? If so, can you close this ticket? If not, can you explain what else you'd like to see?