# Documentation for Socket is not there! **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 19, 2007, 2:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-for-socket-is-not-there/89311 "2007-03-19T14:00:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sai438](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@sai438](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sai438)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-for-socket-is-not-there/89311/1 "2007-03-19T14:00:01Z")
I am unable to view the documentation for Socket related APIs. can any help me out of this?? ---
**Author:** ![sai438](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@sai438](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sai438)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-for-socket-is-not-there/89311/2 "2007-03-19T14:10:39Z")
On 3/19/07, sairam MP [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I am unable to view the documentation for Socket related APIs. can any > help me out of this?? Hello. Consider searching the web for the information you seek: [http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+socket](http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+socket) This was the _first_ result. [http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/socket/rdoc/index.html](http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/socket/rdoc/index.html) Hope that helps, -Harold ---
**Author:** ![sai438](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@sai438](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sai438)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-for-socket-is-not-there/89311/3 "2007-03-19T14:26:06Z")
Harold H. wrote: > On 3/19/07, sairam MP [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > I am unable to view the documentation for Socket related APIs. can any > > help me out of this?? > > Hello. > > Consider searching the web for the information you seek: > [ruby socket - Google Search](http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+socket) > > This was the _first_ result. > [http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/socket/rdoc/index.html](http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/socket/rdoc/index.html) > > Hope that helps, > -Harold Actually I was saying about the documentation in the Ruby Software in Linux FC4 using ri ---
**Author:** ![sai438](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@sai438](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sai438)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-for-socket-is-not-there/89311/4 "2007-03-19T16:36:24Z")
On 19 Mrz., 15:12, “Phrogz” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > ---------------------------------------------------------- Class: > Socket > Class Socket provides access to the underlying operating system > socket implementations. It can be used to provide more operating > system specific functionality than the protocol-specific socket > classes but at the expense of greater complexity. In particular, > the class handles addresses using +struct sockaddr+ structures > [snip] > > But I’m on MacOS X with my own build of Ruby 1.8.5. What version of > Ruby are you using? Works on (K)ubuntu too… ---
**Author:** ![sai438](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@sai438](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sai438)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-for-socket-is-not-there/89311/5 "2007-03-20T01:51:32Z")
On Mar 19, 2007, at 06:26, sairam MP wrote: > > [ruby socket - Google Search](http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+socket) > > > > This was the _first_ result. > > [http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/socket/rdoc/index.html](http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/socket/rdoc/index.html) > > > > Hope that helps, > > -Harold > > Actually I was saying about the documentation in the Ruby Software in > Linux FC4 using ri It most definitely gets generated on 1.8.5. You’re either missing some part of ruby or need to file a bug with your ruby packager. ---
**Author:** ![sai438](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@sai438](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sai438)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-for-socket-is-not-there/89311/6 "2007-03-19T15:16:15Z")
On Mar 19, 7:26 am, sairam MP [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Actually I was saying about the documentation in the Ruby Software in > Linux FC4 using ri Ah, if that’s what you meant, that’s what you should have said. 🙂 It works fine for me: Slim:~ gkistner$ ri Socket ---------------------------------------------------------- Class: Socket Class Socket provides access to the underlying operating system socket implementations. It can be used to provide more operating system specific functionality than the protocol-specific socket classes but at the expense of greater complexity. In particular, the class handles addresses using +struct sockaddr+ structures [snip] But I’m on MacOS X with my own build of Ruby 1.8.5. What version of Ruby are you using?