From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2006-08-28T01:12:57+09:00
Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong? -Chat server code-

Curtis Zimmerman wrote:
> I am running ruby 1.8.6 on WinXP.
Really?  What does ruby -v say?

> I get the following error when I try to run this code:
> 
> httpserv.rb:22:in `runme': undefined local variable or method 
> `connection_accept' for #<ServerBrutus:0x282af80> (NameError)
> 
> Here's the code (taken from a tutorial site by IBM):
> 
> --==--
> 
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> 
> require 'socket'
> 
> class ServerBrutus
> 
>   def initialize(servAddr, servPort)
>     @servPort = servPort
>     @servAddr = servAddr
>     @socketThreads = Array::new
>     @cx = TCPServer.new("", servPort)
>     printf("Server started on port: %d\n", servPort)
>     @socketThreads.push(@cx)
>   end # initialize
> 
>   def runme
>     while 1
>       conChk = select(@socketThreads, nil, nil, nil)
>       if conChk != nil then
>         for socket in conChk[0]
>           if socket == @cx then
>             connection_accept
>           else
>             if socket.eof? then
>               str = sprintf("Client left 
> %s%s\n",socket.peeraddr[2],socket.peeraddr[1])
>               broadcast_string(str, socket)
>               socket.close
>               @socketThreads.delete(socket)
>             else
>               str = sprintf("[%s|%s]: 
> %s",socket.peeraddr[2],socket.peeraddr[1],socket.gets())
>               broadcast_string(str, socket)

               end # if eof?

I think that's what you're missing.  Without it, broadcast_string and 
connection_accept end up being interpreted as nested methods within 
runme, which is why you get an unrecognized method error.

-- 
Alex