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Maintenance Ruby 3.4 gets fixes, but no new features. Switch to Ruby 4.0 →

instance method

File::Stat#dev

() -> ::Integer
stat.dev → integer

Returns an integer representing the device on which stat resides.

Example
File.stat("testfile").dev   #=> 774
See also #ctime #dev_major #chardev? #dev_minor also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0