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class · Ruby 3.1

TCPSocket

< IPSocket 2 class methods

TCPSocket represents a TCP/IP client socket.

A simple client may look like:

Example

require 'socket'

s = TCPSocket.new 'localhost', 2000

while line = s.gets # Read lines from socket
  puts line         # and print them
end

s.close             # close socket when done

Class methods 2

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