From: Nat Pryce <nat.pryce@...13media.com>
Date: 2001-08-07T08:16:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19259] ANNOUNCE: socket options library v0.1

I would like to announce the release of Sockopt 0.1.  Sockopt is a package
of pure Ruby code that extends Ruby's built in socket classes with
convenient attributes and methods for setting common socket options.  For
example, rather than writing:

    require 'socket'
    ...
    socket = UDPSocket.new
    socket.setsockopt( Socket::SOL_SOCKET, Socket::SO_REUSEADDR,
[1].pack("i_") )

You can write:

    require 'socket'
    require 'sockopt'
    ...
    socket = UDPSocket.new
    socket.reuse_addr = bool

The package includes the sockopt.rb file and unit tests for the RubyUnit
framework.  I have tested the code on Windows 2000 on an Intel x86 CPU.
There may be compatibility issues with other operating systems or processor
architectures with different word sizes or endianness. Please let me know if
the tests pass or fail on other platforms. Even better than failure reports
would be additional unit tests that fail with the current sockopt code and
patches to sockopt.rb that cause the tests to pass.

I have written this as a proof-of-concept for an RCR.  What do people think
about extending the Ruby socket classes with methods like this written in C?

Sockopt is available from http://www.b13media.com/dev/ruby/index.html.

Finally, thanks to Will Sobel for supplying me with example code for
setting/getting socket options, which started me on my way with this small
project.

Cheers,
    Nat Pryce.