From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2006-10-03T21:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Monitoring Socket Disconnect during gets or readline

On 10/3/06, Paul Lutus <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote:
> IO#gets blocks forever if the input goes away, while IO#readline throws an
> exception on EOF. I think your situation qualifies as an EOF. Why not try
> it?
>

Use Eventmachine (http://rubyforge.org/projects/eventmachine).

The thing...you need for painless network programming in ruby.

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