title: Bluetooth in Ruby (Mac/Cross Platform)
body: <p>I'm trying to get a list of the bluetooth addresses (the MAC address-like hex digits unique to each bluetooth device) within range of the bluetooth device inside my mac in the ruby language.</p>
  
  <p>I'm hoping to make my work publicly available, so it'd be nice if it was platform agnostic.</p>
  
  <p>Googling only helps so much:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>hcitool etc aren't available on OS X: snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5764</li>
  <li>Ruby_Bluetooth is nearly 4 years old, and I can't make it work!: rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-bluetooth/</li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/herval/ruby-bluetooth" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Herval</a> is attempting to continue that project, but the git repo is only a day old… </li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I don't need to create any services or interact with bluetooth in any extensive way, only list the device ids that are within range.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any other ideas? (Even for non ruby, platform specific hcitool equivalents?)</p>