Passing Open Files Between Processes with UNIX SocketsPassing Open Files Between Processes with UNIX Sockets Published on May 07, 2012 by Jesse Storimer I want to share with you today a neat little technique I learned involving UNIX sockets. In the land of Unix everything is a file. This is faithfully mirrored in Ruby with the IO class. The IO class models any so-called files on a Unix system. This includes stuff like File, TCPSocket, UDPSocket, all
