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

Have a look at the String.unpack method. This is an example:

str = "1010"
str.unpack("cccc")
=> [49, 48, 49, 48]

This will give you integer values. There are more ways to do the conversion.