Hi all...
I am doing a project using Ruby. It is a SMS to Email sort of thing.
Hence, I need to know if it is possible to connect to Hyperterminal
using Ruby. If it is, how?
I have already completed most of the stuff using scripting on
Hyperterminal. So, suggestions not to use Hyperterminal may not be a
good one.
Will appreciate if anyone here can help.
Thank you.
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Does hyperterminal export a COM interface? Ruby can automate that
fairly effortlessly.
martin
On Feb 18, 2008 9:27 AM, Active View <active.view@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all...
I am doing a project using Ruby. It is a SMS to Email sort of thing.
Hence, I need to know if it is possible to connect to Hyperterminal
using Ruby. If it is, how?
You can talk directly to a serial port using Ruby... I understand that
you've already written scripts for HT, but is there any compelling
technical reason for using those? I think you'll have less pain porting
your scripts to Ruby than trying to interact with HT.
Ben
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008, Active View wrote:
I have already completed most of the stuff using scripting on
Hyperterminal. So, suggestions not to use Hyperterminal may not be a
good one.
I just want to provide an alternative to the Ruby module.
I work a lot with the serial port, including from Perl. After a lot of
bloody battles trying to install and then use Perl's libraries for the
serial port(*) I solved the problem in a completely different way.
I've implemented a bi-directional serial2socket bridge as a smallish C+
+ executable (about 100KB in size). This, along with a simple Perl
module that uses the preinstalled libs to talk with it using a socket,
allows me to comfortably control the port with Perl. It should be
similarly simple with Ruby. You can download it here:
http://eli.thegreenplace.net/files/prog_code/perl_serial_comm.zip
If there are any questions, don't hesitate to ask me at
eliben@gmail.com
(*) Perl actually has a library that installs on Windows, but it's
pretty bad, buggy and very poorly documented.
Eli
On Feb 18, 7:27 pm, Active View <active.v...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all...
I am doing a project using Ruby. It is a SMS to Email sort of thing.
Hence, I need to know if it is possible to connect to Hyperterminal
using Ruby. If it is, how?I have already completed most of the stuff using scripting on
Hyperterminal. So, suggestions not to use Hyperterminal may not be a
good one.Will appreciate if anyone here can help.
Can you recommend good (working) free serial comm lib for ruby that
works on windows?
Last time I checked I could find only commercial ones.
Thanks.
And to not totally hijack this thread: I agree that rewriting could be
better that working with HT.
However, if OP wants to go this way and *everything else fails*,
AutoIt might be the way - there's a dll
that you can call from ruby (the cons are: too much work, too many
layers/wrappers).
On Feb 18, 2008 8:21 PM, Ben Bleything <ben@bleything.net> wrote:
You can talk directly to a serial port using Ruby... I understand that
you've already written scripts for HT, but is there any compelling
technical reason for using those? I think you'll have less pain porting
your scripts to Ruby than trying to interact with HT.
I've used ruby-serialport with success talking to a GPS...
http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-serialport/
Todd
On Feb 18, 2008 1:32 PM, Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@gmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 18, 2008 8:21 PM, Ben Bleything <ben@bleything.net> wrote:
> You can talk directly to a serial port using Ruby... I understand that
> you've already written scripts for HT, but is there any compelling
> technical reason for using those? I think you'll have less pain porting
> your scripts to Ruby than trying to interact with HT.Can you recommend good (working) free serial comm lib for ruby that
works on windows?
Last time I checked I could find only commercial ones.Thanks.
Can you recommend good (working) free serial comm lib for ruby that
works on windows?
Last time I checked I could find only commercial ones.
ruby-serialport works in Windows as far as I know. They list it as a
feature at any rate! 
http://ruby-serialport.rubyforge.org/
And to not totally hijack this thread: I agree that rewriting could be
better that working with HT.
However, if OP wants to go this way and *everything else fails*,
AutoIt might be the way - there's a dll
that you can call from ruby (the cons are: too much work, too many
layers/wrappers).
ooo interesting. I'm basically completely ignorant of the Windows world
these days... I only use it when I'm programming microcontrollers with
the serial port 
As it happens, Hyperterminal is about the only app I
use.
Ben
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008, Jano Svitok wrote:
Hey people...
Thank you real lots for the replies... I am figuring out on how to use
the ruby-serial... Tried compiling it using Cygwin... But it seems to
have problem with the make file. Makefile:106 target pattern contains no
'%'. Stop. Any idea what causes this problem?? I am seriously new to
this. So if I am asking some not-so-intelligent questions, my apologies.
Thank you once again.
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Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
I don't know much about cygwin. Have you tried with the Ruby one-click
installer?
Ben
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008, Active View wrote:
Hey people...
Thank you real lots for the replies... I am figuring out on how to use
the ruby-serial... Tried compiling it using Cygwin... But it seems to
have problem with the make file. Makefile:106 target pattern contains no
'%'. Stop. Any idea what causes this problem?? I am seriously new to
this. So if I am asking some not-so-intelligent questions, my apologies.Thank you once again.
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/\.
Ben Bleything wrote:
I don't know much about cygwin. Have you tried with the Ruby one-click
installer?Ben
Is there for MS? Hmm... I can't seem to find it... =[
Thank you.
--
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Did you try google?
http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+one-click+installer
first hit.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008, Active View wrote:
Is there for MS? Hmm... I can't seem to find it... =[
Ben Bleything wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008, Active View wrote:
Is there for MS? Hmm... I can't seem to find it... =[
Did you try google?
ruby one-click installer - Google Search
first hit.
Hmm... Thanks... I thought that was an overall installer for Ruby?? Or
was it an installation file with all the libraries in?
Thank you.
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/\.
It is an installer for Ruby. What I'm suggesting is that instead of
using cygwin, which is an overly complex mess, use the OCI instead.
Install Ruby using the OCI and then install ruby-serialport.
Ben
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008, Active View wrote:
Hmm... Thanks... I thought that was an overall installer for Ruby?? Or
was it an installation file with all the libraries in?
Ben Bleything wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008, Active View wrote:
Hmm... Thanks... I thought that was an overall installer for Ruby?? Or
was it an installation file with all the libraries in?It is an installer for Ruby. What I'm suggesting is that instead of
using cygwin, which is an overly complex mess, use the OCI instead.
Install Ruby using the OCI and then install ruby-serialport.Ben
Hmm... I already have Ruby installed in my computer and it was done
using the OCI. So now I only need to install the serialport libraries
and it is giving me real lot of headaches... =[
Thank you.
--
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I've only worked with the serial port on *nixes, but doing a little
googling, there's also
http://grub.ath.cx/win32serial/
a conversation about which you can find at
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/235343
hth,
Todd
On Feb 19, 2008 10:52 AM, Active View <active.view@gmail.com> wrote:
Ben Bleything wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008, Active View wrote:
>> Hmm... Thanks... I thought that was an overall installer for Ruby?? Or
>> was it an installation file with all the libraries in?
>
> It is an installer for Ruby. What I'm suggesting is that instead of
> using cygwin, which is an overly complex mess, use the OCI instead.
> Install Ruby using the OCI and then install ruby-serialport.
>
> BenHmm... I already have Ruby installed in my computer and it was done
using the OCI. So now I only need to install the serialport libraries
and it is giving me real lot of headaches... =[Thank you.
We've got a couple of production apps (sold to real customers) using parsing data from serial ports using ruby.
The solutions work great on several platforms, but there are no non-GPL'd implementations that I have ever been able to find. To date, ruby-serialport requires some patches in order to build and run (in the very least the patch that opens up .create).
The win32 specific lib was never really much interest to me as we are supporting *nix and win32, and ideally I wanted a well abstracted solution.
So I wrote two libs, one in ruby-termios (for *nix) and one using the win32api, or more specifically using the overlapped IO interfaces, and SetCommState.
Someone recently attached ruby-serialport to eventmachine, and I had been thinking about making a GPL serial-port proxy server, but at this point in time I am not aware of enough demand to make such a project at all worth doing. The ruby-serialport lib is also in need of some maintenance, as I mentioned earlier.
I recently connected my own serial port abstractions to eventmachine a wholly different way, using a timer to poll at a relatively low speed (after all, 9600 baud is nothing these days), as I couldn't get the overalapped IO implementation to work with the reactor core select loop.
As far as connecting to Hyperterminal is concerned, you can easily connect back to yourself if you have two serial ports. I used Virtual Serial Port Kit on win32 for a lot of our testing however, as I can do things like breach the baud rate for running long-running tests in a reasonable time frame. This obviously involves building a mock replica of your hardware, in software however.
On 20 Feb 2008, at 19:48, Todd Benson wrote:
On Feb 19, 2008 10:52 AM, Active View <active.view@gmail.com> wrote:
Ben Bleything wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008, Active View wrote:
Hmm... Thanks... I thought that was an overall installer for Ruby?? Or
was it an installation file with all the libraries in?It is an installer for Ruby. What I'm suggesting is that instead of
using cygwin, which is an overly complex mess, use the OCI instead.
Install Ruby using the OCI and then install ruby-serialport.Ben
Hmm... I already have Ruby installed in my computer and it was done
using the OCI. So now I only need to install the serialport libraries
and it is giving me real lot of headaches... =[Thank you.
I've only worked with the serial port on *nixes, but doing a little
googling, there's alsohttp://grub.ath.cx/win32serial/
a conversation about wh