From: Mohammad --- <name.goes.here44@...>
Date: 2006-10-17T10:48:40+09:00
Subject: Re: UDP Server

John Turner wrote:
> Mohammad --- wrote:
>> Alright I've been trying to set up a UDP server for my "Game", the 
>> "Client" is in python, but I want a ruby server. I tried some code from 
>> the Ruby book, but I wasn't able to get it to work. If someone could 
>> please help me out with starting the server. BTW: port is 5555
>> 
> 
> Code for just about the simplest of servers is below, should just print
> out all requests coming in from your python client if it's sending it
> correctly:
> 
> require 'socket'
> serv = UDPSocket.open
> serv.bind(nil, 5555) #first param is hostname, nil works fine.
> loop{puts serv.recv(5555)}
> 
> If it doesn't work then you should probably test to make sure your
> python client is actually sending things correctly.

Thanks alot now I can get started on a server. :D also how would I get 
the address  also, the reasson why I decided to do the game in python 
instead of ruby was beacause there is a libary called "PyGame" which is 
just a another handler for open SDL(is that it? the graphics?) anyway is 
there one for ruby there's still time for me to change the language

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