This is a Ruby library for interacting with the Tor anonymity network.
- Supports checking whether Tor is installed in the user's current
PATH, and if it is, returning the version number. - Supports parsing Tor configuration files and looking up the values of particular options.
- Supports querying and controlling a locally-running Tor process using the Tor Control Protocol (TC) over a socket connection.
- Supports querying the Tor DNS Exit List (DNSEL) to determine whether a particular host is a Tor exit node or not.
- Compatible with Ruby 1.8.7+, Ruby 1.9.x, and JRuby 1.4/1.5.
require 'rubygems'
require 'tor'
Tor.available? #=> true
Tor.version #=> "0.2.1.25"
torrc = Tor::Config.load("/etc/tor/torrc")
Tor::Config.open("/etc/tor/torrc") do |torrc|
puts "Tor SOCKS port: #{torrc['SocksPort']}"
puts "Tor control port: #{torrc['ControlPort']}"
puts "Tor exit policy:"
torrc.each('ExitPolicy') do |key, value|
puts " #{value}"
end
end
Tor::Controller.connect(:port => 9051) do |tor|
puts "Tor version: #{tor.version}"
puts "Tor config file: #{tor.config_file}"
end
Tor::DNSEL.include?("208.75.57.100") #=> true
Tor::DNSEL.include?("1.2.3.4") #=> false
The recommended installation method is via RubyGems. To install the latest official release of Tor.rb, do:
% [sudo] gem install tor # Ruby 1.8.7+ or 1.9.x
% [sudo] gem install backports tor # Ruby 1.8.1+
To get a local working copy of the development repository, do:
% git clone git://github.com/bendiken/tor-ruby.git
Alternatively, you can download the latest development version as a tarball as follows:
% wget http://github.com/bendiken/tor-ruby/tarball/master
Tor.rb is free and unencumbered public domain software. For more information, see http://unlicense.org/ or the accompanying UNLICENSE file.