rQRCode, Encode QRCodes

Overview

rQRCode is a library for encoding QR Codes in Ruby. It has a simple interface with all the standard qrcode options. It was adapted from the Javascript library by Kazuhiko Arase.

Let's clear up some rQRCode stuff.

rQRCode is a standalone library It requires no other libraries. Just Ruby!
It is an encoding library. You can't decode QR codes with it.
The interface is simple and assumes you just want to encode a string into a QR code
QR code is trademarked by Denso Wave inc

Resources

wikipedia:: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
Denso-Wave website:: http://www.denso-wave.com/qrcode/index-e.html
kaywa:: http://qrcode.kaywa.com

Installing

You may get the latest stable version from Rubygems.

gem install rqrcode

You can also get the latest source from http://github.com/whomwah/rqrcode

git clone git://github.com/whomwah/rqrcode.git

Tests

To run the tests:

$ rake

Loading rQRCode Itself

You have installed the gem already, yeah?

require 'rubygems'
require 'rqrcode'

Simple QRCode generation to screen

qr = RQRCode::QRCode.new( 'my string to generate', :size => 4, :level => :h )
puts qr.to_s
#
# Prints:
# xxxxxxx x  x x   x x  xx  xxxxxxx
# x     x  xxx  xxxxxx xxx  x     x
# x xxx x  xxxxx x       xx x xxx x
# ... etc

Simple QRCode generation to template (RubyOnRails)

# Controller
@qr = RQRCode::QRCode.new( 'my string to generate', :size => 4, :level => :h )

# View: (minimal styling added)
<style type="text/css">
table {
  border-width: 0;
  border-style: none;
  border-color: #0000ff;
  border-collapse: collapse;
}
td {
  border-width: 0; 
  border-style: none;
  border-color: #0000ff; 
  border-collapse: collapse; 
  padding: 0; 
  margin: 0; 
  width: 10px; 
  height: 10px; 
}
td.black { background-color: #000; }
td.white { background-color: #fff; }
</style>

<table>
<% @qr.modules.each_index do |x| %>
  <tr>  
  <% @qr.modules.each_index do |y| %>
   <% if @qr.dark?(x,y) %>
    <td class="black"/>
   <% else %>
    <td class="white"/>
   <% end %>
  <% end %>
  </tr>
<% end %>
</table>

Authors

Original author: Duncan Robertson

Special thanks to the following people for submitting patches:

Contributing

Fork the project
Send a pull request
Don't touch the .gemspec, I'll do that when I release a new version

Copyright

MIT Licence (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)