Ruby TCPSocket: Find out how much data is available?

The standard library io/wait might be useful here. Requring it gives stream-based I/O (sockets and pipes) some new methods, among which is ready? .

According to the documentation ready? Returns non-nil if there are bytes available without blocking. It just so happens that the non-nil value it returns it the number of bytes that are available in MRI .

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