[MacRuby-devel] Macruby and serialport

[Laurent Sansonetti]

Hi,

On Feb 4, 2010, at 8:03 AM, John-Paul Bader wrote:
> i was recently playing around with Arduino / Microcontrollers and  
> wrote a little script to make a hardware itunes volume control out  
> of a potentiometer. Now would love to do that with macruby instead  
> of this disgrace: http://github.com/hukl/Arduino-Experiments/blob/master/itunes_volume_control/serial_itunes.rb 
>  but unfortunately serialport won't work because auf the native  
> extensions that don't work and IO which seems to be a bit buggy.
>
> Do you guys have any idea how to make macruby talk to the serial  
> port or do i have to be a bit more patient ? ;)

We intend to support C extensions written for MRI in the next release.  
But if you don't want to wait, you can try the Objective-C wrapper as  
mentioned in this thread.

Laurent