Range checking or seek method

Hi friends i was in a process of creating a ring buffer and i have done
read, write methods for it. i need seek methods which does range
checking. A seek method should take mumber as a argument and return
nothing. seek changes the read position. I have attached my coding with
it please help me with code to do seek method. if needs change read aned
write method also.

class RingBuffer

Instanciate a ring buffer of the given size.

The buffer will contain at most +size+ elements

def initialize(size)

@max = size

@buffer = Array.new

end

def read(number_of_bytes)
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puts buffer_size

if number_of_bytes < buffer_size

  @newBuffer = Array.new

  @newBuffer = @buffer[0..number_of_bytes]

  puts "Inside no of bytes "

  @newBuffer.each() { |block| puts block.to_s}

  else

    @newBuffer = Array.new

    @newBuffer = @buffer[0..buffer_size]

    puts "Inside buffer size "

    @newBuffer.each() { |block| puts block.to_s}

  end

end

  def write(string_value)
#-----------------------------

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  puts buffer_size

  if buffer_size > @max

    @buffer.shift

    else

      @buffer << string_value

  end

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  puts buffer_size

end

def seek

end

end