# Connecting to a socket

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connecting-to-a-socket/93205>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 29, 2007, 7:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connecting-to-a-socket/93205 "2007-04-29T07:55:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Petr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@Petr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Petr)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2007, 7:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connecting-to-a-socket/93205/1 "2007-04-29T07:55:38Z")

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Hi everyone,  
I’ve got a mailfilter (dspam) that runs in a daemon mode and thus can be  
connected to via a socket /tmp/dspam.sock.

How do would I use Ruby to connect to this socket?

Petr

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**Author:** ![Petr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@Petr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Petr)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connecting-to-a-socket/93205/2 "2007-04-29T14:06:49Z")

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On 4/29/07, Petr [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hi everyone,  
> I’ve got a mailfilter (dspam) that runs in a daemon mode and thus can be  
> connected to via a socket /tmp/dspam.sock.
> 
> How do would I use Ruby to connect to this socket?

A two-second google search found this.

[http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=ruby%20socket&btnG=Google+Search&meta=](http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=ruby%20socket&btnG=Google+Search&meta=)

Mike