clam_chowder

Nicely application-level wrapper for anti-virus software. now supports on clamd only.

Installing

Put this line in your Gemfile:

gem 'clam_chowder'

then bundle:

% bundle

response = ClamChowder::Scanner.new.scan_io(file_stream)

When the file was infected with a virus, that return true and non-it return false.

response.infected?
# => true

response.virus_name
# => 'Eicar-Test-Signature'

When the file was infected with a virus, that return 'OK' and non-it return 'FOUND'.

response.status
# => 'OK'

clam_chowder prepares a stub mode.
in stub mode consider infected a virus with written as virus in file.

ClamChowder.default_backend = :stub

if you use stub-mode when with the production environment on rails.

# config/initializers/clam_chowder.rb
ClamChowder.default_backend = Rails.env.production? ? :clamd : :stub

clam_chowder is available under the MIT LICENSE