Using Serial Ports with Ruby | Tenderlove Making

Lets mess around with serial ports today! I love doing hardware hacking, and dealing with serial ports is a common thing you have to do when working with embedded systems. Of course I want to do everything with Ruby, and I had found Ruby serial port libraries to be either lacking, or too complex, so I decided to write my own. I feel like I’ve not done a good enough job promoting the library, so today we’re going to mess with serial ports using the UART gem. Don’t let the last commit date on the repo fool you, despite being over 6 years ago, this library is actively maintained (and I use it every day!).