Overview

rosruby is ruby ROS client. This is experimental stack and supports hydro, groovy and fuerte (v0.2.1).

See also

• rosruby_common metapackage contains rosruby_actionlib, and rosruby_tutorials.

• rosruby_tf is highly under development.

• rosruby GitHub repository for more information.

Installation

You can install rosruby using apt.

sudo apt-get install ros-hydro-rosruby ros-hydro-rosruby-common ros-hydro-rosruby-messages

rosruby_messages contains pre-compiled ruby message files. Then you have to source setup file for update your environmental variables for rosruby.

source ~/.bashrc

or

source /opt/ros/hydro/setup.bash

Tutorials

Please refer to the rosruby_tutorials package and read the rosruby/Tutorials page.

API Reference

For a more detailed reference, please consult the code API documentation.

Generate message files

After you installed rosruby, ruby message file will be compiled if you generate msg/srv from source. If you want to know more, read this.