Barby 0.1 - Ruby barcode generator that doesn't suck (that much) - Ruby Forum

Barby 0.1 - Ruby barcode generator that doesn't suck (that much) - Ruby Forum:

This is something I released a while ago, but I thought I'd announce it here too, as I'm sure not everyone in the target group reads my blog. Barby is a pure Ruby barcode generator. It doesn't rely on 3rd party libraries (well, unless you want it to do anything useful) and it's easily extensible. It currently supports the following symbologies: * Code128 * GS1128 (aka EAN/UCC-128) * EAN-13 (aka UPC-A) * Bookland * EAN-8 * Code39 The logic for generating graphical representations of the barcodes is split into "outputters". There are currently two outputters, one that uses RMagick and another that annotates a PDF/Writer document, and creating new ones is easy. Some sample code: require 'barby' require 'barby/outputter/rmagick_outputter' barcode = Barby::Code128B.new('IM-IN-UR-BARCODE') File.open('test.png', 'w') do |f| f.write barcode.to_png end Barby is available as a gem (...

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