From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-01-26T00:48:20+09:00
Subject: Re: How to receive data using socket programming

Kamaljeet Saini wrote:
> I got this following code from 
> "http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Socket.src/M002120.html"
> 
>     require 'socket'
>      include Socket::Constants
>      socket = Socket.new( AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0 )
>      sockaddr = Socket.pack_sockaddr_in( 2200, 'localhost' )
>      socket.bind( sockaddr )
>      socket.listen( 5 )
>      client, client_sockaddr = socket.accept
>      data = client.recvfrom( 20 )[0].chomp
>      puts "I only received 20 bytes '#{data}'"
>      sleep 1
>      socket.close
> 
> How to make this code run ? Im trying to run from SciTE editor for ruby. 
> What correction i need to make to run this code so to get feel as how 
> this piece of code of socket works as seeing its output.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

You didn't show any error. What makes you think it isn't running?

The code above is a server, listening for incoming TCP connections on 
port 2200. A simpler way of implementing this is using the gserver.rb 
module which is included in the Ruby standard library. There is 
documentation at the top of this file.

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