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Syed Raza
Syed Raza

Reputation: 1100

How to detect browser type and its version

how can i detect browser type and its version in Rails. I want to put check on the version of specific browser and if its not required browser version than ask user to upgrade it.. i use below specified command but as its not following a standard pattern am unable to use it.

request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] 

Chrome out put is below
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
Safari out put is below
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.21.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.5 Safari/533.21.1
FireFox out put is below
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Opera out put is below
Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.8.131 Version/11.10
Internet Explorer out put is below
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)

Upvotes: 31

Views: 38727

Answers (6)

Marian13
Marian13

Reputation: 9308

allow_browser (Rails 7.2+)

Starting from Rails 7.2, there is a built-in way to check browser type and its version.

For example:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  # Allow only browsers natively supporting webp images, web push, badges, import maps, CSS nesting + :has
  allow_browser versions: :modern
end

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  # All versions of Chrome and Opera will be allowed, but no versions of "internet explorer" (ie). Safari needs to be 16.4+ and Firefox 121+.
  allow_browser versions: { safari: 16.4, firefox: 121, ie: false }
end

class MessagesController < ApplicationController
  # In addition to the browsers blocked by ApplicationController, also block Opera below 104 and Chrome below 119 for the show action.
  allow_browser versions: { opera: 104, chrome: 119 }, only: :show
end

Here is a link to the relative PR and a link to the docs.

Upvotes: 1

Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards

Reputation: 3612

There is also useragent gem:

<% user_agent = UserAgent.parse(request.env["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]) %>
App: <%= user_agent.application %> # Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:22.0)
Browser: <%= user_agent.browser %> # Firefox
Version: <%= user_agent.version %> # 22.0
Platform: <%= user_agent.platform %> # Macintosh
Mobile: <%= user_agent.mobile? %> # False
OS: <%= user_agent.os %> # OS X 10.8

Upvotes: 9

bradlis7
bradlis7

Reputation: 3489

Though this is a frontend solution, I prefer to check for a specific feature that is required, such as flexbox. You can use something like Modernizr, or just a simple JavaScript check will do (https://stackoverflow.com/a/27047981/179311).

if(!("flexWrap" in document.documentElement.style)) {
    // IE 10, Chrome 20 and Firefox 27 and anything older will hit this.
    alert('your browser is out of date');
    // maybe this is preferred
    // window.location = '/browser-unsupported'
}

Upvotes: 0

TH Afridi
TH Afridi

Reputation: 432

NOTE: Be careful some search engines see this as a type of intrusion See ( Google HTTP USER AGENT )

 if request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] =~ /[^\(]*[^\)]Chrome\//

or in the case of firefox

if request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] =~ /[^\(]*[^\)]*[^\t]Firefox\//

and check this here you will get all you need browser Gem

browsers_detection_gem

and here is a method which can detect all browsers so chill man

def browser_detection
  result = request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT']
  browser_compatible = ''
  if result =~ /Safari/
    unless result =~ /Chrome/
      version = result.split('Version/')[1].split(' ').first.split('.').first
      browser_compatible = 'Application is not functional for Safari version\'s '+version if version.to_i < 5
    else
      version = result.split('Chrome/')[1].split(' ').first.split('.').first
      browser_compatible = 'Application is not functional for Chrome version\'s '+version if version.to_i < 10
    end
  elsif result =~ /Firefox/
    version = result.split('Firefox/')[1].split('.').first
    browser_compatible = 'Application is not functional for Firefox version\'s '+version if version.to_i < 5
  elsif result =~ /Opera/
    version = result.split('Version/')[1].split('.').first
    browser_compatible = 'Application is not functional for Opera version\'s '+version if version.to_i < 11
  elsif result =~ /MSIE/
    version = result.split('MSIE')[1].split(' ').first
    browser_compatible = 'Application is not functional for Microsoft Internet Explorer version\'s '+version if version.to_i < 9
  end
  browser_compatible
end

Upvotes: 28

Nishutosh Sharma
Nishutosh Sharma

Reputation: 1936

Try the browser gem. Very simple and can solve your purpose.

You can find the gem Here very easy to use.

Upvotes: 30

Spyros
Spyros

Reputation: 48696

What you do is actually the way to do it. Now, you can process the user agent information with a regular expression, looking for matches on Firefox, Chrome or any other browser or version you like.

Upvotes: 3

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