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ronin-support is a support library for Ronin. ronin-support provides many Core Extensions to Ruby's built-in classes as well as its own Classes/Modules. ronin-support can be used by other Ruby libraries, tools, or scripts.

tl;dr It's like pwntools combined with activesupport.

ronin-support is part of the ronin-rb project, a Ruby toolkit for security research and development.

• Provides user-friendly APIs for:
  • Bit-flipping
  • Hexdump / unhexdump data.
  • Packing/unpacking binary data:
    • C types
    • Buffers
    • IO streams
    • Stacks
    • Strings
    • Arrays
    • Structs
    • Unions
  • Encoding data:
    • Base16
    • Base32
    • Base36
    • Base62
    • Base64
    • C strings
    • Hex
    • HTML
    • HTTP
    • JavaScript
    • PowerShell
    • Punycode
    • Quoted-printable
    • Ruby strings
    • Shell
    • SQL
    • URI
    • UUencoding
    • XML
  • Reading/writing compressed data:
    • Zlib
    • Gzip
  • Reading/writing archive files:
    • Tar
    • Zip
  • Cryptography:
    • RSA
    • DSA
    • DH
    • EC
    • HMAC
    • Ciphers
    • X509 certificates
  • Networking:
    • DNS
    • UNIX
    • TCP
    • UDP
    • SSL / TLS
    • FTP
    • SMTP / ESMTP
    • POP3
    • IMAP
    • Telnet
    • HTTP / HTTPS
    • Raw packets
    • ASNs
    • IP addresses
    • IP ranges
    • TLDs
    • Public Suffix List
    • Host names
    • Domain names
  • Working with text:
    • Generating typos.
    • Generating homoglyphs.
    • Regexs for matching/extracting common types of data.
• Adds additional methods to many of Ruby's core classes.
• Small memory footprint (~46Kb).
• Has 96% documentation coverage.
• Has 93% test coverage.

$ irb -r ronin/support
irb(main):001:0> "hello world".base64_encode
=> "aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=\n"
irb(main):002:0> "aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=\n".base64_decode
=> "hello world"

require 'ronin/support'
include Ronin::Support

string = "hello world"
puts string.base64_encode

data = "aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=\n"
puts data.base64_decode

For more examples of the convenience methods provided by ronin-support, please see the API documentation.

• Ruby >= 3.0.0
• base64 ~> 0.1
• chars ~> 0.3, >= 0.3.2
• hexdump ~> 1.0
• combinatorics ~> 0.4
• addressable ~> 2.0
• uri-query_params ~> 0.8

$ gem install ronin-support

gem 'ronin-support', '~> 0.5'

1. Fork It!
2. Clone It!
3. cd ronin-support
4. bundle install
5. git checkout -b my_feature
6. Code It!
7. bundle exec rake spec
8. git push origin my_feature

Copyright (c) 2006-2026 Hal Brodigan (postmodern.mod3 at gmail.com)

ronin-support is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

ronin-support is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with ronin-support. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.