From: Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@...>
Date: 2004-01-19T13:54:03+09:00
Subject: data acquisition and control with Linux and Ruby

Frank Mori Hess and I have just put the finishing touches on a first set 
of Ruby bindings for the Linux Control and Measurement Device Interface 
(Comedi). From the Comedi web site (http://www.comedi.org):

> Comedi is a collection of drivers for a variety of common data
> acquisition plug-in boards. The drivers are implemented as a core
> Linux kernel module providing common functionality and individual
> low-level driver modules.
> 
> Comedilib is a user-space library that provides a developer-friendly
> interface to Comedi devices. Included in the Comedilib distribution
> is documentation, configuration and calibration utilities, and
> demonstration programs.

The Ruby bindings are built using SWIG. There is also some interface 
glue to make the syntax more Ruby-like.

Ruby support is in CVS at present. Look in subdirectory swig/ruby. I 
presume it will be in the next release of Comedilib, whenever that is.

Steve