From: Stefan Schmiedl <s@...>
Date: 2007-01-10T19:35:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby intergation with barcode scanner

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:25:51 +0900, Adrian Roskrow wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I was wondering whether any one had got any experience or software to
> access the USB ports. I have got a rs232 scanner that I can connect to a
> USB port. I would like to get it to work to read ISBN numbers so I can
> put the details in a mysql database. I have done programming before
> (java C shell scripts) but am quite new to ruby, what I have seen so far
> is really good. I would be very glade of some help/or software I can
> hack to do what I want to do with ruby as the language of choice.
> 
> Adrian
>

the barcode scanners I know emulate a keyboard, so using them from 
ruby should be a matter of plugging them in and reading from $stdin.

s.