Clamd

Ruby client to interact with ClamAV daemon

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'clamd'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Install clamd directly

$ gem install clamd

Configuration

Clamd by default connects to 9321 port in localhost. You can also configure the host, port, open_timeout(seconds), read_timeout(seconds) and chunk_size(bytes). Refer the following code to configure Clamd.

Client.configure do |config|
  config.host = 'localhost'
  config.port = 9321
  config.open_timeout = 5
  config.read_timeout = 20
  config.chunk_size = 102400
end

Usage

@clamd = Clamd::Client.new

PING

@clamd.ping
=>"PONG"

RELOAD

@clamd.reload
=>"RELOADING"

SHUTDOWN

@clamd.shutdown
=> true

SCAN

@clamd.scan("/file/path")
=>"/file/path: OK"

CONTSCAN

@clamd.contscan("/file/path")
=>"/file/path: OK"

MULTISCAN

@clamd.multiscan("/file/path")
=>"/file/path: OK"

INSTREAM

@clamd.instream("/file/path/to/stream/to/clamd")
=>"stream: OK"

STATS

@clamd.stats
=> "POOLS: 1STATE: VALID PRIMARYTHREADS: live 1  idle 0 max 12 idle-timeout 30QUEUE: 0 items"

VERSION

@clamd.version
=> "ClamAV 0.97.8/18237/Sat Dec 14 11:13:16 2013"

Connecting multiple ClamdAV daemon

You can also connect to multiple ClamdAV daemon running on different machine at the same time.

@clamd1 = Clamd::Client.new(host: '192.16.20.11', port: 9321)
@clamd2 = Clamd::Client.new(host: '172.16.50.21', port: 8321)

@clamd1.ping
=> "PONG"

@clamd2.ping
=> "PONG"

License

Clamd is released under the MIT License.

Test

Run spec

rspec spec/