Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I am looking for a good introduction how to interface with the
>  internet (TCP/IP + UDP) via ruby.
> 
>  Does anyone knows of sources to examine or HowTos ?
> 
>  Thank you very much in advance!
>  mcc

The 1st ed. of Programming Ruby has some material on this, and the PDF 
is free online[1] and also included as a .chm file with the One-Click 
Installer for windows[2].

There are also some examples in the sample subdir of the ruby package.

[1] http://www.rubycentral.com/book/lib_network.html
[2] http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167

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