From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2011-05-05T17:22:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Documentation about ruby-openssl

"Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@aliax.net> wrote in post #996577:
> Hi, is there somewhere good documentation about ruby-openssl API? or
> any good tutorial? The RDOC is hard to read:
>
>   http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/openssl/rdoc/index.html

Probably best just to look at some code which uses it. Net::HTTPS would 
be a good start for a TLS client. For TLS server, I did some 
reverse-engineering to build ruby-ldapserver, and now I use that as my 
reference implementation :-)

> PD: Is there any other alternative to ruby-openssl?

Depends what you want to do.

ruby's ext/openssl is just a thin wrapper around the openssl library. If 
you want to do things like open and accept TLS sessions, it's your main 
option. I don't know if alternatives like GNU-TLS have been wrapped for 
ruby.

However, if you want to do things like symmetric encryption, there are 
quite a few other libraries.

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