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As I couldn’t find any ruby bindings for ssdeep, I decided to write it as my first ruby extension today …

Installation (prerequisites)
You first need to compile/install the ssdeep library.
On debian testing:

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$ apt-get install ssdeep

On other Linuxes/Unixes:

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$ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/ssdeep/files/ssdeep-2.4/ssdeep-2.4.tar.gz/download
$ tar zxvf ssdeep-2.4.tar.gz
$ cd ssdeep-2.4/
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt
$ make
$ sudo make install

On windows:

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$ There is no real shell, and I will not make screen-shots... ;)

Installation (the real one)
To install it using rubygems:

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$ gem install ssdeep

To install it using rubygems with a non standard ssdeep installatoin path:

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$ gem install ssdeep -- --with-ssdeep-dir=/path/to/ssdeep

Usage
The bindings follow the ssdeep APIs: (for extended information on this functions, check the ssdeep API doc.)
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