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mahemoff
mahemoff

Reputation: 46509

Server-Side Device Detection

What are Rails developers doing to detect device details on the server? There seem to be a few old WURFL libs, but nothing recently.

I'm using responsive design and want to avoid sending out images that will be hidden anyway, since browsers display them. (There are some client-side workarounds like using background-image, but they make the client unnecessarily complex.)

Detecting width would be particularly useful, as it corresponds to Bootstrap and similar responsive frameworks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1117

Answers (3)

Jack
Jack

Reputation: 508

Another open source detection software you might want to check out would be 51Degrees.mobi. They have PHP, C and a few other implementations you might find useful.

Upvotes: 0

Chad Day
Chad Day

Reputation: 76

Little late to the party here, but we do have a WURFL Cloud Client in Ruby that may meet your needs. http://www.scientiamobile.com/cloud

Upvotes: 0

Ram G
Ram G

Reputation: 4829

Take a look at the open source (last tab is rails example). http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/

Upvotes: 3

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