Net::Socket

A fancy-pants socket API for Ruby.

Bugs

This is actually a bug with Ruby, not Net::Socket, but if you require 'net/socket' between creating a Net::HTTP or Net::FTP instance, Net::HTTP or Net::FTP may raise an "uninitialized constant" exception. The reason for this is that Net::HTTP and Net::FTP reference Socket, which winds up referencing Net::Socket. There is a small hack-ish fix for this in lib/net/socket/socket-hack.rb, and I will be submitting a pull request to fix it in Ruby.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'net-socket'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install net-socket

Usage

# Yay echo server!

require 'net/socket'
include Net::Socket

async = !!ARGV.delete('--async')
socket = TCP::Server.new('0.0.0.0', 9001)

socket.each_request(async) do |conn|
  conn.puts conn.read
end

socket.wait # Wait for the socket to close.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://gitlab.com/spinny/net-socket/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request