On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Bharadw= aj Srigiriraju <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

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 R= uby
>> and I am not sure where to start off...
>>
>> What are the things I should know (related to Ruby) before startin= g this
>> project? Can you point me to some good sources to know these thing= s
>> more?
>
> First you need the general concepts: how TCP/IP works, what sockets ar= e
> and how to use them, and so on. The relevant classes in Ruby are just<= br> > 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 progr= amming
> at the same time, but perhaps others here do.
>
> The best book I know on the fundamentals of network programming is &qu= ot;Unix
> Network Programming Volume 1" by the late Richard Stevens. You ar= e
> 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 bee= n already
done in this area?

Provided that this i= s for strictly legal purposes, you might want to checkout the standard libr= ary docs.

http:= //www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/

http:= //pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ruby/sockets.html

http://writequit.org/blog/?p=3D153

here is one on socket programming

http://www.tutor= ialspoint.com/ruby/ruby_socket_programming.htm

this is a ruby p2p app in six lines

https://groups.g= oogle.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/8fc335f67f99536c?hl=3Den=A0=A0

hope this helps. I really hope this is for research/legal purpos= es, which is my assumption :-)

Andrew

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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