From: jm <jm@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T14:44:28+09:00
Subject: ruby replacement for net::patricia needed

I'm looking for the ruby equivalent of the perl Net::Patricia module 
which uses the Patricia Trie algorithm for storing objects in 
association with a ip address/mask combinations. For example,

p = Patricia.new()
p.add_address('127.0.0.0/8', obj)  # stores object obj
o = p.match('127.0.0.1') # returns object obj

Is there anything similar already in existence for ruby? Is it possible 
to adapt the acl modules?

I'm trying to avoid re-inventing the wheel.

Jeff.