hello i was learning about ruby and on the book i am reading it shows the part where i can create a chatserver with Gserver well lookingon the internet shows the server code everywhere. but when i am trying to do a chat client it always failed on me. i wouldl ike that it works like a conection with telnet or with netcat. here is the failling code: require 'socket' # Sockets are in standard library host = 'localhost' port = 1234 while line = s.gets # Read lines from the socket puts line # And print with platform line terminator s.puts gets end s.puts "Connection close!!" s.close THANK YOU in advance -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.