# Where is the .rb for sockets? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 8, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-the-rb-for-sockets/142443 "2008-07-08T01:42:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmaenpaa)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-the-rb-for-sockets/142443/1 "2008-07-08T01:42:16Z")
Normally I use `ri foo` whenever I want to read up on something. There’s also the ruby library, (/usr/lib/ruby/1.8), as there are some goodies and clues in the comments. `locate foo.rb` normally does it but in the case for TCPSocket, Socket and IPSocket there’s nothing to be found. Where is it hidden? Socket.ancestors [Socket, BasicSocket, IO, File::Constants, Enumerable, Object, PP::ObjectMixin, Kernel] I’m guessing that it’s either part of IO or something writen in C. Am I right? Is there a Socket.rb file anywhere? - jjm ---
**Author:** ![jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmaenpaa)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-the-rb-for-sockets/142443/2 "2008-07-08T01:50:27Z")
John M. wrote: > Normally I use `ri foo` whenever I want to read up on something. There’s > also the ruby library, (/usr/lib/ruby/1.8), as there are some goodies and clues in the comments. `locate foo.rb` normally does it but in the case for TCPSocket, Socket and IPSocket there’s nothing to be found. Where is it hidden? > > Socket.ancestors > [Socket, BasicSocket, IO, File::Constants, Enumerable, Object, PP::ObjectMixin, Kernel] > > I’m guessing that it’s either part of IO or something writen in C. Am I > right? Is there a Socket.rb file anywhere? Socket lib is written in C, but there are ri docs for it: $ ri Socket | head -n 20 ---------------------------------------------------------- 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 packed into Ruby strings, which can be a joy to manipulate. ``` Exception Handling Ruby's implementation of Socket causes an exception to be raised based on the error generated by the system dependent implementation. This is why the methods are documented in a way that isolate Unix-based system exceptions from Windows based exceptions. If more information on particular exception is needed please refer to the Unix manual pages or the Windows WinSock reference. Documentation by * Zach D. ``` Does this work on your system? Not all of the methods have docs, tho. ---
**Author:** ![jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmaenpaa)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-the-rb-for-sockets/142443/3 "2008-07-08T02:00:58Z")
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:46:25 +0900 Joel VanderWerf [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > ``` > system specific functionality than the protocol-specific socket > > ``` > > needed please refer to the Unix manual pages or the Windows WinSock > reference. > > ``` > Documentation by > * Zach D. > > ``` > > Does this work on your system? > > Not all of the methods have docs, tho. yes that does work. I have those docs. where is the c code for io or tcp stuff? it it not this stuff… /home/jayeola/bx/rb/ruby/1.8/io: total used in directory 12 available 16697500 drwxr-xr-x 2 jayeola jayeola 4096 2008-06-27 03:30 . drwxr-xr-x 31 jayeola jayeola 4096 2008-07-06 10:53 … -rw-r–r-- 1 jayeola jayeola 408 2008-06-27 03:30 nonblock.rb ---
**Author:** ![jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmaenpaa)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 7:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-the-rb-for-sockets/142443/4 "2008-07-08T07:27:04Z")
On 7/8/08, John M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:46:25 +0900 > Joel VanderWerf [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > John M. wrote: > > > > > Normally I use `ri foo` whenever I want to read up on something. > > > There’s also the ruby library, (/usr/lib/ruby/1.8), as there are > > > some goodies and clues in the comments. `locate foo.rb` normally > > > does it but in the case for TCPSocket, Socket and IPSocket there’s > > > nothing to be found. Where is it hidden? You are looking for ‘socket.c’, which can be found in the ext/socket directory: [http://github.com/rubyspec/matzruby/tree/ebe2c2934c3fecfd4751eeeb256bf7293cdc9654/ext/socket/socket.c](http://github.com/rubyspec/matzruby/tree/ebe2c2934c3fecfd4751eeeb256bf7293cdc9654/ext/socket/socket.c)