From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2009-01-05T17:27:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Coding a server

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:24:02PM +0900, Vernier -- wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I'm porting some old c++ code for a server to ruby, and I can't figure
> out what's the correct way of doing the network packet parsing
> 
> I'm using eventmachine for the networking code but when a packet is
> received it must be parsed and depending on the header the packet will
> have one format or another, and each of these would have an associated
> reply format, I'm not quite sure on how to code this while keeping it
> clean
> 
> Any ideas on how you would do this?
> also, in cpp I'm using structs for the packet formats, but I have no
> idea on how to do that in ruby

Take a look at packetfu http://code.google.com/p/packetfu/

enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org