Simple socketing

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Hi there, I recently started with Ruby and I am trying to make a very
simple irc bot, but I am having some slight problems though.

This is what I came up with:

require 'socket'
class Irc
  def connect(server, port = 6667)
    @socket = TCPsocket.new(server, port)
  end
  def to_server(text)
    @socket.gets(text)
    return true
  end
  def from_server()
    return @socket.puts
  end
end
irc = Irc.new
irc.connect("irc.homelien.no", 6667)
irc.to_server('NICK: testbot')
irc.to_server('USER: testbot "" "irc.efnet.net" :testbot')
go = true
while go == true
  if (text = irc.from_server)
    puts(text)
  end
end

Doesn't work though, I just get the loop.

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  def to_server(text)
    @socket.gets(text)
    return true
  end
  def from_server()
    return @socket.puts
  end

You've got gets and puts the wrong way around. Read them as Get String
and Put String, gets reads from the socket and puts writes to it.

Also, there's a protocol error there, you want to_server to read like this:

def to_server(text)
  @socket.puts(text.to_s+"\r\n") # The line breaks are important, must be CRLF.
end

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