proc_parser

proc_parser provides a Ruby wrapper for /proc data such as those contained in /proc/mem_info, /proc/stat and /proc/loadavg.

Interested in support of more proc files? Contributions are welcome! You can either create an issue or propose a pull request.

Wondering the meaning of some fields? Read the manual with man 5 proc.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'proc_parser'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install proc_parser

meminfo = ProcParser::MemInfo
memtotal = meminfo.memtotal
memfree = meminfo.memfree

After checking out the repository, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bundle exec rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

On my work station, I prefer to use a Docker image with Ruby installed instead of installing Ruby locally. Hence, any bundle … command can be prefixed with docker-compose run proc-parser. For instance, running the tests is done with the command docker-compose run proc-parser bundle exec rake spec.

This gem is a generalization of the wonderful work from watsonian and its mem_info gem.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/EtienneM/proc_parser.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.