UDP Server

[Mohammad ---]

Alright I've been trying to set up a UDP server for my "Game", the
"Client" is in python, but I want a ruby server. I tried some code from
the Ruby book, but I wasn't able to get it to work. If someone could
please help me out with starting the server. BTW: port is 5555

 

[Paul Barry]

Not sure what platform you are using, but ... if Linux, some of the
distros come with a pretty tight firewall setting by default ... your
traffic to port 5555 may be being discarded/blocked.

Just a thought.

The other thing that might help the network-savvy readers to help you is
if you post the code (or part of) you have written that's not working.

Regards.

Paul.

 

[John Turner]

Alright I've been trying to set up a UDP server for my "Game", the
"Client" is in python, but I want a ruby server. I tried some code from
the Ruby book, but I wasn't able to get it to work. If someone could
please help me out with starting the server. BTW: port is 5555

Code for just about the simplest of servers is below, should just print
out all requests coming in from your python client if it's sending it
correctly:

require 'socket'
serv = UDPSocket.open
serv.bind(nil, 5555) #first param is hostname, nil works fine.
loop{puts serv.recv(5555)}

If it doesn't work then you should probably test to make sure your
python client is actually sending things correctly.

 

[Mohammad ---]

Code for just about the simplest of servers is below, should just print
out all requests coming in from your python client if it's sending it
correctly:

require 'socket'
serv = UDPSocket.open
serv.bind(nil, 5555) #first param is hostname, nil works fine.
loop{puts serv.recv(5555)}

If it doesn't work then you should probably test to make sure your
python client is actually sending things correctly.

Thanks alot now I can get started on a server. also how would I get
the address also, the reasson why I decided to do the game in python
instead of ruby was beacause there is a libary called "PyGame" which is
just a another handler for open SDL(is that it? the graphics?) anyway is
there one for ruby there's still time for me to change the language