blinky helps you see the light - plug and play set up for build lights - get a build light up and running in a few minutes.

Setting up a build light on a new project always seems to be more of a hassle than it should be. Somehow it always seems that no one else has ever dealt with the exact combination of OS, CI Server and build light that you have in your sweaty little hands, and you have to write something from scratch. Again.

blinky is an attempt to fix that.

blinky aims to supply plug and play support for all combinations of

• USB Light Model (or any other USB Device used to indicate build status)

• Operating System

Plug in your USB light, and then do something like this

require 'rubygems'
require 'blinky'

blinky = Blinky.new.light  
light.success!
light.failure!
light.building!
light.warning!
light.off!

Want to plug in more than one light on the same machine?

require 'rubygems'
require 'blinky'

blinky = Blinky.new
light_one = blinky.lights[0]
light_two = blinky.lights[1]

Not sure which light is which?

# make light_one flash
light_one.where_are_you?

• Delcom Engineering USB Visual Indicator Generation I

• Delcom Engineering USB Visual Indicator Generation II

• OSX

• Linux

• Windows (Theoretically)

NOTE: I haven’t been able to test fully on Windows yet. Any assistance with doing so, and/or providing more complete installation instructions would be gratefully received.

Install lib-usb-1.0 and the lib-usb-compat-0.1 layer with your favourite package manager.

For example, on OSX

brew install libusb-compat

install lib-usb-win32. See www.libusb.org/wiki/libusb-win32

(Despite the name, this apparently supports both win-32 and win-64)

gem install blinky

NOTE: on OSX will probably need to provide your machine architecture. For example:

ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install blinky

Plug in your light and then do this:

require 'rubygems'
require 'blinky'

blinky = Blinky.new
blinky.light.watch_test_server

Watch the pretty lights!

COMING SOON

Copyright © 2010 Perryn Fowler. See LICENSE for details.