charlar.rb

Installation

1. mkdir ~/code
2. git clone https://github.com/seamusabshere/charlar.rb.git ~/code/charlar.rb
3. cd ~/code/charlar.rb
4. bundle

If you don't have bundle, then run gem install bundler.

Usage

Run send.rb in one terminal:

~/code/charlar.rb (master) $ ruby send.rb Image
the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
WROTE inbox/1393939955.965494.png

Run receive.rb in another terminal:

~/code/charlarb (master) $ ruby receive.rb 
==================================================
READ inbox/1393939955.965494.png
--------------------------------------------------
the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog

As soon as a message is read, it will go to the trash/ folder.

Formats

The two options for send.rb are Image and Text.

Text

It just writes the text into a file.

Image

It uses the ASCII character code (97 for 'a', etc.) in the Red channel of a PNG.

For example, "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" looks like:

Copyright

Copyright 2014 Bettina Miguez and Seamus Abshere