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 Bähr <jonas.baehr@fs.ei.tum.de>
          (C) 2008 Daniel E. Shipton <daniel.shipton.oss@gmail.com> 
          (C) 2003 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
          (C) 2002 Guillaume Pierronnet <moumar@netcourrier.com>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.