From: Joe Van Dyk Date: 2005-07-06T06:03:11+09:00 Subject: Establishing new TCP Socket connection Hi, If I want to establish a new TCP connection every time I need to access data (the server doesn't want to keep old connetions around), is there any reason why I can't do something like: def send_message_and_recv_response server = TCPSocket.new @server_ip, @server_port server.puts "the message" result = server.recv end