Working with binary data in Ruby
GrillRB Conference 2019
Link to the presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kanu5gxKugx8TSEf1GowZlFI1-yhgIK6/view
Most of the Ruby projects we work on involve text-based protocols and formats: HTTP, HTML, CSS, JSON, SQL. The tooling for that is awesome. But what if we have to work with non-ASCII based protocols? In this talk I’d like to look at what tools are built in to Ruby, what gems are available, how we’re using them in production and what we learned. I will also show how to approach …