Simoha Simoha wrote: > PHP has 'fsockopen'-function to create a socket connection. With what > function I can create this connection in ROR? FYI: Rails is a web framework. Ruby is a programming language. If you want to open a TCP connection in Ruby, start with the TCPSocket class. http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/lib_network.html http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/TCPSocket.html There are also lower-level socket classes which can be used in special cases. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.