[ANN] rubytorrent 0.1 (bittorrent for ruby)

[William Morgan]

Hello all,

I'm happy to release RubyTorrent 0.1. RubyTorrent is a pure-Ruby
BitTorrent peer library. Changes in version 0.1 include many bugfixes
(Windows platforms now fully functional) and enhancements (snubbing
support, API improvements, http_proxy). You can get it at:

http://www.masanjin.net/~wmorgan/rubytorrent/rubytorrent-0.1.tar.gz
(RubyForge project coming soon.)

RubyTorrent is around 1500 lines. I've included a simple command-line
text peer program, rtpeer.rb, for you to play around with. The API is
also slowly changing into something useful. From the "docs":

Synopsis
--------

## world's smallest bittorrent client
require 'rubytorrent'
bt = RubyTorrent::BitTorrent.new(ARGV.shift)
thread = Thread.new do
while true
puts bt.percent_completed
sleep 15
end
end
bt.on_complete { thread.kill }
thread.join

Comments, bug reports and patches always welcome. Have fun.

 

[Tobias Luetke]

Awesome project.

Thank you so much. this will be very valuable

 

[martinus]

Great work, thanks!

martinus

 

[Paul Duncan]

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Hello all,
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I'm happy to release RubyTorrent 0.1. RubyTorrent is a pure-Ruby
BitTorrent peer library. Changes in version 0.1 include many bugfixes
(Windows platforms now fully functional) and enhancements (snubbing
support, API improvements, http_proxy). You can get it at:
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http://www.masanjin.net/~wmorgan/rubytorrent/rubytorrent-0.1.tar.gz
(RubyForge project coming soon.)
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RubyTorrent is around 1500 lines. I've included a simple command-line
text peer program, rtpeer.rb, for you to play around with. The API is
also slowly changing into something useful. From the "docs":

Hi William,

It looks like you can add support for remote torrents by changing two
lines. Here's a diff (I'm sending it to the list for discussion):

--
diff -ur rubytorrent-0.1/rubytorrent/metainfo.rb rubytorrent-0.1-openuri/ru=
bytorrent/metainfo.rb
--- rubytorrent-0.1/rubytorrent/metainfo.rb 2005-01-03 23:47:48.000000000=
-0500
+++ rubytorrent-0.1-openuri/rubytorrent/metainfo.rb 2005-01-04 16:01:08.000=
000000 -0500
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
require 'rubytorrent/typedstruct'
require 'uri'
+require 'open-uri'
require 'digest/sha1'
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## MetaInfo file is the parsed form of the .torrent file that people
@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@
end
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def self.from_filename(fn)
- File.open(fn, "rb") { |f| from_bstream(BStream.new(f)) }
+ open(fn, "rb") { |f| from_bstream(BStream.new(f)) }
end
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def self.from_stream(fn)
--

With this change, RubyTorrent can then handle URIs to torrent files transpa=
rently, like so:

bt =3D RubyTorrent::BitTorrent.new('http://www.legaltorrents.com/bit/wired-=
creative-commons-cd.torrent')

Hope this helps...

Synopsis
--------
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## world's smallest bittorrent client
require 'rubytorrent'
bt =3D RubyTorrent::BitTorrent.new(ARGV.shift)
thread =3D Thread.new do
while true
puts bt.percent_completed
sleep 15
end
end
bt.on_complete { thread.kill }
thread.join
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Comments, bug reports and patches always welcome. Have fun.

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Paul Duncan <[email protected]> pabs in #ruby-lang (OPN IRC)
http://www.pablotron.org/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x82C29562

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[William Morgan]

Excerpts from Paul Duncan's mail of 4 Jan 2005 (EST):

It looks like you can add support for remote torrents by changing two
lines. Here's a diff (I'm sending it to the list for discussion):

Thanks. I'll incorporate that in in 0.2.