RUBY-ASTERISK
This gem add support to your Ruby or RubyOnRails projects to Asterisk Manager Interface
There was a project with the same name, but it appears to be discontinued so I decided to start a new project
Installation
Rails3
Add to your Gemfile and run the bundle command to install it.
 gem "ruby-asterisk"Rails2
Simply run in your terminal
 gem install ruby-asteriskUsage
INITIALIZE
To create a new AMI session, just call the following command
 @ami = RubyAsterisk::AMI.new("192.168.1.1",5038)LOGIN
To log in, provide to the created sessions a valid username and password
 @ami.login("mark","mysecret")Like all commands, it will return a Response command that could be parsed accordingly
CORE SHOW CHANNELS
To get a list of all channels currently active on your Asterisk installation, use the following command
 @ami.core_show_channelsPARKED CALLS
To get a list of all parked calls on your Asterisk PBX, use the following command
 @ami.parked_callsORIGINATE
To start a new call use the following command
 @ami.originate("SIP/9100","OUTGOING","123456","1","var1=12,var2=99") # CHANNEL, CONTEXT, CALLEE, PRIORITY, VARIABLESCOMMAND
To execute a cli command use the following code
 @ami.command("core show channels")MEETME LIST
To get a list of all active conferences use the following command
 @ami.meet_me_listEXTENSION STATE
To get the state of an extension use the following command
 @ami.extension_state(@exten,@context)DEVICE STATE LIST
To get list of states of devices
 @ami.device_state_list(@exten,@context)SKINNY DEVICES AND LINES
To get list of skinny devices
 @ami.skinny_devicesTo get list of skinny lines
 @ami.skinny_linesQUEUE PAUSE
To pause or unpause a member in a call queue
 @ami.queue_pause("SIP/100", "true", "myqueue", "reason")                                                                            PING
To ping asterisk AMI
 @ami.pingEVENT MASK
To enable or disable sending events to this manager connection
 @ami.event_mask("on")SIPpeers
To get a list of sip peers (equivalent to "sip show peers" call on the asterisk server). This can be used to get a buddy list.
 @ami.sip_peersSIP SHOW PEER
To get info of a peer (equivalent to "sip show peer" call on the asterisk server).
 @ami.sip_show_peer(peer)SIP SHOW REGISTRY
Retrieve a status of SIP registries and their statuses from the Asterisk server.
 @ami.sip_show_registrySTATUS
To get a status of a single channel or for all channels
 @ami.status ATXFER
Attendand transfer
 @ami.atxfer(channel, exten, context, priority = '1')WAIT EVENT
Wait for an event to occur. Timeout in seconds to wait for events, -1 means forever
 wait_event(timeout=-1)MONITOR
Monitor a channel
 monitor(channel,mix=false,file=nil,format='wav')STOP MONITOR
Stop monitoring a channel
 stop_monitor(channel)PAUSE MONITOR
Pause monitoring of a channel
 pause_monitor(channel)UNPAUSE MONITOR
Unpause monitoring of a channel
 unpause_monitor(channel)CHANGE MONITOR
Change monitoring filename of a channel
 change_monitor(channel,file)THE RESPONSE OBJECT
The response object contains all information about all data received from Asterisk. Here follows a list of all object's properties:
- type
- success
- action_id
- message
- data
- raw_response
The data property contains all additional information obtained from Asterisk, like for example the list of active channels after a "core show channels" command.
Todo List
- Adding initialization parameters for Telnet options like Output_log, Waittime, Dump_log, timeout;
- Adding test cases for better code coverage;
- Refactoring of ruby-asterisk.rb, adding method_missing for the purpose of supporting as much AMI commands as possible
Development
Questions or problems? Please post them on the issue tracker. You can contribute changes by forking the project and submitting a pull request. You can ensure the tests passing by running bundle and rake.
This gem is created by Emiliano Della Casa and is under the MIT License and it is distributed by courtesy of Engim srl.