The intention of ruby-whois is provide a library that abstracts whois records returned for domain names, ip addresses and registrars, for as many TLDs as possible. The initial goal is to provide the abstraction for domain lookups.

The library is setup to be used as a plugin to a Rails application because that is my initial use for it. However, it should be usable from other Ruby programs.

It's in pre-beta stages and I may significantly change the design, but is usable for the tlds currently supported (com net org biz us info and some others). As it is, feel free to create any tickets.

Two other whois Ruby libraries: - Michael Neumann’s whois module - Whois Ruby