title: Sending socket message with ruby without closing connection
body: <p>I'm working on a small ruby client that sends a continuous stream of information to a socket server (which is then passed on to other clients listening). I do not want to have to close the connection every time data is sent, however it seems that with ruby, the data is not sent until I close the connection. Is there another way to do this without reconnecting to the server? It is essential that the outgoing data is passed along as soon as it is sent by the client script.</p>
  
  <p>Currently I have to do this within a loop:</p>
  
  <pre><code>s = TCPsocket.new('127.0.0.1',2000)
  s.send('Hello World',0)
  s.close
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, that means that I am constantly having to reconnect to the socket server, often in very quick succession. I would like to be able to connect to the socket server outside of the loop and close when the loop is done. If I do that now, the send data will all be sent at once when the 'close' is initiated.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to keep the connection open while continuing to send information? I know this is possible in other languages and scripts as I have done it several times in AS3.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>