I have a few ruby scripts that I use to make life a little easier at
work. Some of said scripts utilize the clipboard. Work is windows and
my laptop runs Ubuntu. I'm able to use the same scripts on both
computers but I have a few qualms with how I'm doing it.

Right now I've got classes for gnome and windows, a clipboard wrapper
class to be used by my scripts and a real basic OS class I use to
determine which class desktop class to use.

First off, the method I'm using to determine OS is...terrible.
Currently I'm doing a string comparison in my OS class, but it doesn't
actually tell me which desktop application I'm actually running, so at
the moment it's just a dirty hack but I'm not sure of the preferred
way to do it..



Second, I'm uncomfortable with how I'm importing my desktop specific
code in the main clipboard class. Is there a ruby-er way of doing
this, or maybe just a smarter way anyone knows of?



Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Here's the code if anyone would like to take a gander:
http://joezack.com/downloads/code/ruby/clipboard.zip