zerothabhishek/ruby-fifo

A cross-platform library to use named pipe

FIFO

A simple library multiplatform to handle named pipe, works like File.

Reader Example: pipe = Fifo.new('/path/to/file') #non-blocking # OR # pipe = Fifo.new('/path/to/file', :r, :wait) #blocking

pipe.read(2)
pipe.getc
pipe.gets
pipe.readline

Writer Example: pipe = Fifo.new('/path/to/file', :w, :nowait) #non-blocking # OR # pipe = Fifo.new('/path/to/file', :w, :wait)

pipe.write "HI"
pipe.print "X"
pipe.puts "OH", "HAI"