How Does Ruby handle bytes/binary?

Question

I\'m trying to send a series of binary bytes across a socket, to meet a particular standard my company uses. No one in my company has used Ruby for this before, but in other lan

Answer 1

To make a string that has an arbitrary sequence of bytes, do something like this:

binary_string = "\xE5\xA5\xBD"

The "\x" is a special escape to encode an arbitrary byte from hex, so "\xE5" means byte 0xE5.

Then try sending that string on the socket.