UserShell

UserShell is a tiny gem that uses the canonical approach to detect the shell for the current user, or a specified user. The techniques are ugly so it seemed like it would be worth hiding them behind a gem.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'usershell'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install usershell

Usage

  UserShell.path => "/bin/zsh"
  UserShell.path('john') => "/usr/local/bin/fish"

Attempting to get the shell path for a user that doesn't exist will raise an ArgumentError.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request