box-o-sand/oldstuff/zeromq/hwclient.rb

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require 'zmq'

def main
  context = ZMQ::Context.new(1)

  puts "Connecting to hello world server…"
  requester = context.socket(ZMQ::REQ)
  requester.connect("tcp://localhost:5555")
  puts "requester is a #{requester.class.inspect}"

  0.upto(9) do |request_nbr|
    puts "Sending request #{request_nbr}…"
    if requester.send("Hello")
      puts "Sent request, now receiving reply"
      reply = requester.recv
      puts "Received reply #{request_nbr}: [#{reply}]"
    end
  end

  puts "Outside of loop now.  Closing socket..."
  requester.close
end


if $0 == __FILE__
  main
end