socket server in ruby

[John Merlino]

I want to create a socket server that listens for incoming UDP packets
which come in as hexidecimal values, which means they must be
converted into ASCII format in ruby. Some of those hex values
represent multi-byte characters. So the socket server needs to be
listening for incoming connections, and there is over 10,000 packets
coming in throughout the day. Then it needs to do the conversion from
binary, and then it needs to update a postgresql database with the
decoded values. Would their be a significant performance hit doing
this in ruby? Or would this situation be preferred to be handled in
python or c++?

 

[Simon Krahnke]

I want to create a socket server that listens for incoming UDP packets
which come in as hexidecimal values, which means they must be
converted into ASCII format in ruby. Some of those hex values
represent multi-byte characters.

I'm not really sure what you mean by that. Is there stream of
hexadecimal coming that needs to be decoded into bytes and then
interpreted UTF-8 or what?

So the socket server needs to be
listening for incoming connections,

There is no such thing as a UDP connection.

and there is over 10,000 packets coming in throughout the day.

That doesn't sound like much. 10,000/d is 1 every 8.64 seconds.

Then it needs to do the conversion from
binary, and then it needs to update a postgresql database with the
decoded values. Would their be a significant performance hit doing
this in ruby? Or would this situation be preferred to be handled in
python or c++?

Something in a Ruby on Rails Framework should be able to do that. Why do
you think python would be faster?

mfg, simon .... l