From: Bharadwaj Srigiriraju <lists@...>
Date: 2012-03-25T05:02:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Need to create a file-sharing client like Gnutella, where to start?

Brian Candler wrote in post #1053069:
> Bharadwaj Srigiriraju wrote in post #1053068:
>> I am a newbie and I am excited about how Ruby works :)
>>
>> I am planning to develop a file-sharing client similar to Gnutella using
>> Ruby. I think I need to learn something related to networking in Ruby
>> and I am not sure where to start off...
>>
>> What are the things I should know (related to Ruby) before starting this
>> project? Can you point me to some good sources to know these things
>> more?
>
> First you need the general concepts: how TCP/IP works, what sockets are
> and how to use them, and so on. The relevant classes in Ruby are just
> wrappers around the underlying C API. And of course you need to
> understand all the security pitfalls of networked applications and how
> to avoid them, before exposing your application to the Internet at
> large.
>
> I don't know of a book which teaches those concepts and Ruby programming
> at the same time, but perhaps others here do.
>
> The best book I know on the fundamentals of network programming is "Unix
> Network Programming Volume 1" by the late Richard Stevens. You are
> likely to find this very heavy going if you are new to computing and
> programming in general, but you are unlikely ever to outgrow it :-)


hmm... Can you tell me any specific implementation that has been already 
done in this area?

You said that I need to learn concepts like TCP/IP, sockets etc. What 
are those other things I need to learn along with them?

Just asking, can this thing be completed in a month duration?
(I have never developed an application before, that's why...).

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