hilli/wakeonlan

Pure ruby wake on lan client and library

Wake On LAN¶ ↑

• wakeonlan.rubyforge.com/

• [email protected]

Description¶ ↑

Wake On LAN library and system executable

Prerequisites¶ ↑

Ruby 1.8.6 or later

Installation¶ ↑

You can use RubyGems [rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems] to install the latest version of the WakeOnLAN library remotely.

gem install --remote wakeonlan

Usage¶ ↑

require 'wakeonlan'

 wol = WakeOnLan.new
 wol.wake("00:14:5e:2a:1c:f7") # Send magic packet to the machine with the MAC address 00:14:5e:2a:1c:f7
 wol.close

or just simply:

WakeOnLan.wake!("00:14:5e:2a:1c:f7")

or

WakeOnLan.wake!("my-sleepy-host")

if you have a /etc/ethers file. See ‘man 5 ethers` on a UNIX/BSD/Linux system

LICENSE¶ ↑

WakeOnLAN library is Copyright © 2009 by Jens Hilligsoe. It is free software. Redistribution is permitted under the same terms and conditions as the standard Ruby distribution. See the COPYING file in the Ruby distribution for details.