# README – ruby librrd bindings

Authors: David Bacher <drbacher at alum.mit.edu>

Mark Probert <probertm at acm.org>

based on work by Miles Egan <miles at caddr.com>

Introduction

rubyrrdtool provides ruby bindings for RRD functions (via librrd), with functionality comparable to the native perl bindings. See examples/minmax.rb or the unit tests in the test directory for scripts that exercise the rrdtool functions.

Installation

rubyrrdtool requires RRDtool version 1.2 or later. Some RRD functions such as rrddump are only available with the latest RRDtool.

Installation is standard. If you’ve installed the gem, you should be ready to go. Otherwise, simply run:

ruby extconf.rb make make install

I hope this works for you. Please let me know if you have any problems or suggestions.

Thanks to Tobi for rrdtool!

Building gem

gem build RubyRRDtool.gemspec

To do

• Documentation

• Build an interface that feels more ruby-like around this simple functional translation

License

(the MIT license)

Copyright © 2006

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