# Ruby Net::LDAP version 0.0.2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 12, 2006, 1:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-net-ldap-version-0-0-2/98070 "2006-07-12T13:02:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blackhedd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@blackhedd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blackhedd)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 1:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-net-ldap-version-0-0-2/98070/1 "2006-07-12T13:02:17Z")
We’re pleased to announce version 0.0.2 of Net::LDAP, the first pure-Ruby LDAP library. Net::LDAP intends to be a feature-complete LDAP client which can access as much as possible of the functionality of the most-used LDAP server implementations. This library does not wrap any existing native-code LDAP libraries, creates no Ruby extensions, and has no dependencies external to Ruby. Version 0.0.2 includes an implementation of the “paged search control” to enable queries of A/D result sets \> 1000 entries. It also fills in some holes in the documentation. We fixed a handful of issues that gave strange-looking errors when working with A/D. The most important of these was support for search referrals. Net::LDAP now works with standard RFC-2254 filter strings (see Net::LDAP::Filter#construct). This is intended as an adjunct to (not a replacement for) the existing Filter API, which is considerably easier to use for people who are not LDAP experts. Thanks to Andre N. for suggesting this. We added a range of new APIs, and deprecated some existing ones. The goal is to make the Net::LDAP API as intuitive and Ruby-like as possible. We’ll be adding more improvements to the API as we go along. Please note that Net::LDAP is licensed under the Ruby license or LGPL, at your option. (I’m saying it publicly right here!) There are still many source files in the distro that contain GPL verbiage. We will clean that up in a future release. See the file LICENCE in the distro for details of the Ruby-like license. And finally we fixed the annoying problem that the 0.0.1 gem and tarball had trailing garbage. Thanks to Austin for helping track that down. Thanks also to the many people who contributed suggestions, usage notes, and bug reports. Your support makes Net::LDAP a better library for everyone. Progress so far: Net::LDAP is now in use on a variety of production sites. Stability has been excellent, and performance is quite good. We’ve found by far that the most popular application is authentication for users of web sites, but there has been some chatter about authorization as well, and a few of you are building directory-enabled applications. What’s next on the roadmap? Many of you have requested support for encryption. We will soon be adding support for STARTTLS and LDAPS to Net::LDAP, using Ruby’s built-in OpenSSL library. We’d like to improve the API so it presents a more search-like interface and further masks the archaic (and arcane) native LDAP vocabulary. We have a project going (“Peregrine”) to provide a full-featured LDAP server in Ruby, based on the EventMachine fast network-IO library, that you can use with your own Ruby classes. This will allow you to serve LDAP clients (such as mailers, IM, and calendaring apps) with data that you generate dynamically from your own code. Finally, we’ve started thinking about an authentication generator or plugin for Rails that will work against LDAP servers. It would be even more interesting to augment it with fine-grained authorization at the controller level. If anyone wants to contribute suggestions, insights or (especially) code, please email me at garbagecat10 … . … [gmail.com](http://gmail.com). ---
**Author:** ![blackhedd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@blackhedd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blackhedd)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-net-ldap-version-0-0-2/98070/2 "2006-07-12T13:04:56Z")
Get Net::LDAP from Rubyforge, or install the gem: gem i ruby-net-ldap ---
**Author:** ![blackhedd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@blackhedd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blackhedd)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-net-ldap-version-0-0-2/98070/3 "2006-07-13T02:28:05Z")
fr francis: # Subject: [ANN] Ruby Net::LDAP version 0.0.2 being pure ruby, this is very useful, indeed. We will try it here. thank you for net/ldap. kind regards -botp