—–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.

The native Windows version of this library supports Microsoft’s Visual C++, Borland’s C++, and MinGW compilers.

– Installation –

This gem is hosted at Gemcutter. Before you can install this, or any other Gemcutter gem you must add it as a gem source:

gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org

Then you can install the gem as normal:

sudo gem install serialport

– Testing –

  • test/miniterm.rb

Ruby’s copy of miniterm.c !

– API –

**** Class SerialPort, Parent IO ****

  ** Class constants **

     VERSION -> aString (this release is "0.6")
     NONE, HARD, SOFT, SPACE, MARK, EVEN, ODD -> anInteger

  ** Class methods **

    * new(port_num [, modem_parameters]) -> aSerialPort
    * open(port_num [, modem_parameters]) -> aSerialPort
    * open(port_num [, modem_parameters]) {|aSerialPort| block} ->
              value of the block

      port_num -> anInteger: port number, 0 for first port which is
                    "/dev/ttyS0" on GNU/Linux and "COM1" on Windows,
              or  aString: file name of the device (example: "/dev/ttyS2")

      Optional modem_parameters:

      baudrate -> anInteger: from 50 to 256000, depends on platform.

      databits -> anInteger: from 5 to 8 (4 is allowed on Windows)

      stopbits -> anInteger: 1 or 2 (1.5 is not supported)

      parity -> anInteger: SerialPort::NONE, SerialPort::EVEN,
                SerialPort::ODD, SerialPort::MARK, SerialPort::SPACE
                (MARK and SPACE are not supported on Posix)

      Raise an argError on bad argument.

      SerialPort::new and SerialPort::open without a block return an
      instance of SerialPort.  SerialPort::open with a block passes
      a SerialPort to the block and closes it when the block exits
      (like File::open).

  ** Instance methods **

    * modem_params() -> aHash
    * modem_params=(aHash) -> aHash
    * get_modem_params() -> aHash
    * set_modem_params(aHash) -> aHash
    * set_modem_params(baudrate [, databits [, stopbits [, parity]]])

      Get and set the modem parameters.  Hash keys are "baud", "data_bits",
      "stop_bits", and "parity" (see above).

      Parameters not present in the hash or set to nil remain unchanged.
      Default parameter values for the set_modem_params method are:
      databits = 8, stopbits = 1, parity = (databits == 8 ?
      SerialPort::NONE : SerialPort::EVEN).

    * baud() -> anInteger
    * baud=(anInteger) -> anInteger
    * data_bits() -> 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8
    * data_bits=(anInteger) -> anInteger
    * stop_bits() -> 1 or 2
    * stop_bits=(anInteger) -> anInteger
    * parity() -> anInteger: SerialPort::NONE, SerialPort::EVEN,
        SerialPort::ODD, SerialPort::MARK, or SerialPort::SPACE
    * parity=(anInteger) -> anInteger

      Get and set the corresponding modem parameter.

    * flow_control() -> anInteger
    * flow_control=(anInteger) -> anInteger

      Get and set the flow control: SerialPort::NONE, SerialPort::HARD,
      SerialPort::SOFT, or (SerialPort::HARD | SerialPort::SOFT).

      Note: SerialPort::HARD mode is not supported on all platforms.
      SerialPort::HARD uses RTS/CTS handshaking; DSR/DTR is not
      supported.

    * read_timeout() -> anInteger
    * read_timeout=(anInteger) -> anInteger
    * write_timeout() -> anInteger
    * write_timeout=(anInteger) -> anInteger

      Get and set timeout values (in milliseconds) for reading and writing.
      A negative read timeout will return all the available data without
      waiting, a zero read timeout will not return until at least one
      byte is available, and a positive read timeout returns when the
      requested number of bytes is available or the interval between the
      arrival of two bytes exceeds the timeout value.

      Note: Read timeouts don't mix well with multi-threading.

      Note: Under Posix, write timeouts are not implemented.

    * break(time) -> nil

      Send a break for the given time.  

      time -> anInteger: tenths-of-a-second for the break.
      Note: Under Posix, this value is very approximate.

    * signals() -> aHash

      Return a hash with the state of each line status bit.  Keys are
      "rts", "dtr", "cts", "dsr", "dcd", and "ri".

      Note: Under Windows, the rts and dtr values are not included.

    * rts()
    * dtr()
    * cts()
    * dsr()
    * dcd()
    * ri() -> 0 or 1

    * rts=(0 or 1)
    * dtr=(0 or 1) -> 0 or 1

      Get and set the corresponding line status bit.

      Note: Under Windows, rts() and dtr() are not implemented.

– License –

GPL

Guillaume Pierronnet <[email protected]> Alan Stern <[email protected]> Tobin Richard <[email protected]> Hector Parra <[email protected]> Ryan C. Payne <[email protected]>