joshuanapoli / oatmeal

Just barely enough Iron in your Serial

Oatmeal

Oatmeal, "Just enough Iron in your Serial," is a Ruby library that provides a minimal wrapper around the .NET System.IO.Ports API for IronRuby. It mimics the read, write and readline methods from its more full-featured cousin, the serialport Ruby library.

Prerequisites

1. IronRuby.
2. Mono or .NET.

Installation

igem install oatmeal, or just put serialport.rb somewhere in your LOAD_PATH.

Usage

Sample code:

require 'serialport'

port = SerialPort.new '/dev/ttyUSB0', 9600, 8, 1, SerialPort::NONE
port.read_timeout = 1000

begin
  port.write 'something'
  puts port.read
ensure
  port.close
end