Simple Clipboard

This is a very minimalist Ruby Gem that demonstrates how native extensions can be used to access a user's clipboard.

You will need git, cmake, and an appropriate C++ compiler tool-chain (e.g. GCC) to install this gem.

Assuming you have git, cmake, and a compatible C++ compiler tool-chain installed, you should be able to install libclipboard by following these steps:

git clone https://github.com/jtanx/libclipboard
cd libclipboard
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j4
sudo make install

Building the gem should be as simple as:

gem build simple_clipboard.gemspec

Assuming that libclipboard has been installed, you will be able to install the gem:

gem install simple_clipboard-0.0.1.gem

This gem defines a module called SimpleClipboard, with two methods for interacting with a user's clipboard:

• get_text - returns the current clipboard contents as a string
• set_text(new_text) - replaces the contents of the clipboard with the value of new_text, and returns the previous contents of the clipboard

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

See the LICENSE file for more information.