# Ruby Net::LDAP and ASN.1 Support **URL:** \ **Category:** ruby-talk\ **Created:** [6 July 2004 03:34 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-net-ldap-and-asn-1-support/12427 "2004-07-06T03:34:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Austin\_Ziegler5](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/rubytalk.org/austin_ziegler5/32/1985_2.png) [@Austin\_Ziegler5](https://rubytalk.org/u/Austin_Ziegler5)\ **Post date:** [6 July 2004 03:34 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-net-ldap-and-asn-1-support/12427/1 "2004-07-06T03:34:11Z")
I am trying to catch up on a number of my neglected Ruby projects -- Ruwiki being the first and foremost -- and one of the projects that I have (but have done almost nothing with) is Ruby Net::LDAP, an attempt to port Perl's Net::LDAP to Ruby. While I have no doubt that I can do this -- I am getty pretty good at porting some pretty obscure Perl code to Ruby -- it is something where I could use some help (especially as I pick up Ruwiki and PDF::Writer again), and would even be willing to hand over the RubyForge project to a capable maintainer so long as the project's goal (a \*pure Ruby\* LDAP interface) is met. The first thing that would help -- and the main thing that slowed me down from working on it months ago -- is the ASN.1 requirements. Skimming over ruby-talk recently, I think that I noticed that there is something (OpenSSL?) that supports at least partial ASN.1 interpretation. Is this the case? Does someone have such a library that can be used to give Net::LDAP a good kick in the complacency? -austin > **ยทยทยท** > > -- > Austin Ziegler \* [halostatue@gmail.com](mailto:halostatue@gmail.com) >                \* Alternate: [austin@halostatue.ca](mailto:austin@halostatue.ca)