beep

Currently, beep is a very simple wrapper around the beep utility of Linux. It handles a small subset of the functionality provided by the utility.

Installing beep

Install beep (the utility) using your package management app of choice. If you type in beep at the command prompt, you should be rewarded with, well, pretty much just a beep. Note: In some recent Ubuntu versions, the pcspkr module is blacklisted, so you will need to comment out the relevant line in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklistif you want the pcspkr permanently enabled (it can be quite annoying) or manually load it using ‘sudo modprobe pcspkr`

And then, install the gem.

gem install beep

Usage

In your Ruby code:

require 'beep'

Issuing the default beep

Beep::Sound.generate

Passing through a sequence of beeps

sounds = [
  {:frequency => 100, :duration => 200, :pause => 300},
  {:frequency => 400, :duration => 500, :pause => 600},
  {:frequency => 700, :duration => 800, :pause => 900},
]

Beep::Sound.generate(sounds)

The duration and pause sounds are in milliseconds. Frequency is in MHz.

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.

• Make your feature addition or bug fix.

• Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Copyright © 2011 Rory McKinley. See LICENSE for details.