RSpec
Ruby on Rails
Ruby
Class Socket provides access to the underlying operating system socket implementations. It can be used to provide more operating system specific functionality than the protocol-specific socket classes but at the expense of greater complexity. In particular, the class handles addresses using +struct sockaddr+ structures packed into Ruby strings, which can be a joy to manipulate.
<a href="/ruby/Exception">Exception</a> Handling
Ruby’s implementation of Socket causes an exception to be raised based on the error generated by the system dependent implementation. This is why the methods are documented in a way that isolate Unix-based system exceptions from Windows based exceptions. If more information on particular exception is needed please refer to the Unix manual pages or the Windows WinSock reference.
Documentation by
- Zach Dennis
- Sam Roberts
- Programming Ruby from The Pragmatic Bookshelf.
Much material in this documentation is taken with permission from Programming Ruby from The Pragmatic Bookshelf.
