From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-02-19T04:48:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Connecting to HyperTerminal

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.

I've used ruby-serialport with success talking to a GPS...

http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-serialport/

Todd