Ruby/SerialPort

Description

Ruby/SerialPort is a Ruby library that provides a class for using RS-232 serial ports. This class also contains low-level functions to check and set the current state of the signals on the line.

It support POSIX (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, Mac OS X), Cygwin and native Windows. The native Windows version of this library supports Microsoft’s Visual C++ and Borland’s C++ compilers.

Installation

$ gem install ruby-serialport

Any files and older versions can be found at rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-serialport/

Examples

reuire 'rubygems'
require 'serialport'
sp = SerialPort.new "/dev/my-modem", 9600
sp.write "AT\r\n"
puts sp.read   # hopefully "OK" ;-)

A functional example can be found in examples/miniterm.rb – Ruby’s copy of miniterm.c

For a compeate API reference see the RDoc of SerialPort.

License and Copyright

Copyright (C) 2008 Jonas B