From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-11-04T21:40:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about TCP manuals

Jacek Olszak wrote:
> Hi everyone...I'm new to ruby and I'm looking for some good manual 
> about  TCP networking in Ruby. I've
> a Programming Ruby book, but it doesn't contain enough informations I  
> want. I've googled the web but
> didn't see any full manual yet. I want to know such informations like 
> for  example: how to check in
> my code, when the connection was closed by a foreign host etc.


The best book out there is probably Unix Network Programming by Stevens. 
Ruby's socket library wraps each underlying system call with a ruby 
method. Now as you go up from BasicSocket/Socket to 
IPSocket/TCPSocket/TCPServer it all gets a little nicer and friendlier.

I have submitted some documentation (with examples) for the Socket 
library, but it has not been accepted or denied yet by the ruby-core 
group, perhaps if you give a description of what you're looking to do 
folks can steer you in the right direction.

Zach