Official version 1 of the old forked rubygem, completely redone/refactored.
To simply get basic information about the server just require 'minecraft-query' and
query = Query::simpleQuery('server.ip.here', 25565)
which will return
=> {:motd=>"ECS Survival", :gametype=>"SMP", :map=>"world", :numplayers=>"1", :maxplayers=>"20"}
The 25565 needs to be set to whatever the port you have set for query in server.properties
To get a full list of information, the syntax is
query = Query::fullQuery('server.ip.here', 25565)
You can also do fun things such as
players = query[:numplayers] + '/' + query[:maxplayers]
to get a nice => 1/20 which can easily be handled on a website.
The Remote CONtrol part of the gem is implemented, but still being developed. If you want to know syntax, have a look at the source (lib/rcon.rb) for now until I get around to documenting it