Ruby in a Nutshell

Name

TCPSocket — TCP/IP socket class

Synopsis

TCPSocket is a class for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), which is connection-oriented, reliable protocol.

Required Library

require ’socket’

Example

require 'socket'

host=(if ARGV.length == 2; ARGV.shift; else "localhost"; end)
print("Trying ", host, " ...")
STDOUT.flush
s = TCPsocket.open(host, ARGV.shift)
print(" done\n")
print("addr: ", s.addr.join(":"), "\n")
print("peer: ", s.peeraddr.join(":"), "\n")
while gets(  )
  s.write($_)
  print(s.readline)
end
s.close

Inherited Class

IPSocket

Class Methods

TCPSocket::new(host, service)

TCPSocket::open(host, service)

Opens a TCP connection to host for service, which may also be a port number