Ruby, SSLSockets, and Apple's Enhanced APN message format -

I am trying to implement support for Apple's advanced push notification message format in my Rail app, and some I'm facing disappointing problems. I could not clearly understand the bases as I thought.

My main problem is that if I send all the messages correctly, my code is hanging because the socket. If your message looks fine, the apple does not return anything , so my program locks.

Here are some pseudocodes that I have to work on:

  cert = file.read (options [: cert]) ctx = OpenSSL :: SSL :: SSLContext .new ctx.key = OpenSSL :: PKey :: RSA.new (cert, options [: passphrase]) ctx standard = openSSL :: X509 :: certificate.new (cert) sok = tcpsetset New (option [: Host], Option [: Port]) SSL = OpenSSL :: SSL :: SSLNet.net (ASOC, CTX) SSL. Sync = true ssl.connect messages.each do | Message | Ssl.write (message.to_apn) end if read_buffer = ssl.read (6) process_error_response (read_buffer) termination  

Obviously, there are several problems with this:

1. If I send a message to a large number of devices, and the failure message is sent halfway through processing, then I do not really see the error unless I already tried to send it to everyone According to the device.
2. As mentioned earlier, if all messages were acceptable to Apple, then my app socket would be hanging on the read call. In a way I have tried to solve this is to read from a socket in a separate thread:

     thread.nu () {data = Ssl.read (6) end of process_error_response (data) messages.each do | Message | Ssl.write (message.to_apn) end ssl.close sock.close  

   This does not seem to work. The data is never being read from the socket. This is probably a misconception about which sockets are expected to work.

   I have called a non-blocking reading that I thought ... but Ruby does not seem to have it unblocked blocking 1.9 calls to SSLSocket ... which I unfortunately do not use anymore can do.

   Can someone point me in the right direction, with a better understanding of socket programming?

Cam is correct: the traditional way of handling this situation is IO.select .select ([ssl], zero, zero, 5) read_buffer = ssl.read (6) process_error_response (read_buffer) If it is readable or zero otherwise it will be and ssl for "publicability" for 5 seconds.