Binary Finery

Mixes in a _fluent interface_ to any IO entity for reading and writing binary data. It handles (de)serialization of:

- Integer numbers
- Null terminated strings
- Fixed size strings

Requirements

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Binary Finery assumes that the stream where is mixed in, provides the following methods:

- read or read_nonblock - write or write_nonblock

It will run under Ruby version 1.8.7 or newer.

Examples

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File.open(my_file.bin) do |f| f.extend(BinaryFinery) version = f.read_uint16_big length = f.read_uint32_little end

Install

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$ gem install binary_finery

Contributing

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If you’d like to hack on, please follow these instructions. To get all of the dependencies, install the gem first.

1. Fork the project and clone down your fork

2. Create a branch with a descriptive name to contain your change

3. Hack away

4. Add tests and make sure everything still passes by running rake

5. Do not change the version number, I will do that on my end

6. If necessary, rebase your commits into logical chunks, without errors

7. Push the branch up to GitHub

8. Send me (altamic) a pull request for your branch

Copyright

© Copyright 2011 Michelangelo Altamore. See LICENSE for details.