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

Don't know if this helps enough, but you can index the bits in an integer in ruby.

n = 0b010101

n # => 21

n = 21

n[0]  # => 1
n[1]  # => 0
n[2]  # => 1
n[3]  # => 0
n[4]  # => 1
n[5]  # => 0