print_message function from client.rb

gistfile1.rb

  def print_message
    Thread.new do
      loop do
        # monitor socket and print data if there is any
        result = IO.select([@socket], nil, nil, nil)
        if not result.nil?
          socket = result[0].first # result[0] is the socket array. In this example there can only be one
          data = socket.readpartial 4096

          # use print here, because puts automatically appends a newline
          print data
        end
      end
    end
  end