Ruby-serialport mechanics

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I want to use ruby-serialport on ubuntu with ruby 1.8.7.

First I downloaded version 1.0.4 from github and compiled it myself,
second I installed the ubuntu package libserialport-ruby.

Both packages do not load serialport.rb via require 'serialport.so' and
so dont know about class SerialPort.

The consequence is, that SerialPort.new doesn't accept a string as its
first parameter and directly calls IO#create to open one of the standard
streams.

Literally including the class SerialPort int my source text causes
SerialPort to work properly.

What is the reason for this odd behaviour?

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Then just require 'serialport'

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On Sep 5, 2011, at 5:28, Fritz Trapper <ajfrenzel@web.de> wrote:

I want to use ruby-serialport on ubuntu with ruby 1.8.7.

First I downloaded version 1.0.4 from github and compiled it myself,
second I installed the ubuntu package libserialport-ruby.

Both packages do not load serialport.rb via require 'serialport.so' and
so dont know about class SerialPort.