From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-08-07T02:14:09+09:00
Subject: Re: I want to use ruby, but I don't think I can... help

Michael,

I'm not sure what could be causing your networking problems on Windows
-- I certainly have had good results writing network code in Ruby, and
moving between Windows, Linux, and OS X with no changes. If you have
an example code snippet that's causing you problems on Windows, I'm
sure we could take a look at it on the list and see what's going
wrong.

Looking at the product info Spirent has for smartlib, though, it
appears that what you're trying to do may be more complex than simple
network connectivity. In that case, you may need to drop down to C
code to wrap the smartlib API for use in Ruby. Don't let that scare
you too much -- I started out with Java, too, and learned C mostly as
a gateway to C++ (and writing Ruby and Python bindings for C
libraries), but the Ruby C API is pretty easy to work with.

Lennon