Ruby, from client to server and back?

[Digicoder]

Like the others here my question is based on Ruby and the IF's of its power.

I've looked into Ruby and Rails before, can't say I was much for the code language at the time. I've been wondering about Ruby and its ability to connect from a client computer to a server.

Is it possible to open a connection with ruby to my server and have it send and get info when needed to do something similar to what an online game would do?

Thanks all.

[JamieD]

Hi,

The short answer is yes it could. The longer answer is you probably would not want to use ruby for this. I take it you are looking at building a desktop application that communicates with a server? You could easily use rails on the server and create an API that your desktop application would communicate with. For the desktop client I would suggest looking at adobe AIR or the google desktop equivalent, I can't remember the name offhand.

Jamie