Ruby, IronRuby and FlightGear – The Perfect Trio… maybe
October 21, 2008
Ruby, IronRuby and FlightGear; Three big subjects in their own rights but here I am mixing them all together and perhaps getting into things a little to much over my head.
The idea of using these three programs is to get real time data from a flight simulator program and then process and output it through ruby. Also a future goal is to be able to send data to control different systems while in flight through external components.
The following post contains information on FlightGears .xml protocols and configuring the simulator to output data through a socket. Also two scripts in Ruby and IronRuby which gets data from FlightGear and displays it.
Please also note that you will find that some information I give is similar to what is given at http://linkslink.wordpress.com/takeoff/ as I used the information as a guide when I was learning about the .xml Protocol files and has led me to some handy .Net libraries when using IronRuby.
