Making TCPSocket.new 'Happy'!
Misaki Shioi • Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan • Japanese • Talk

Date: April 17, 2025
Published: May 27, 2025
Announced: unknown

I introduced Happy Eyeballs Version 2 (RFC8305) (hereafter HEv2) into the socket library's `Socket.tcp` and `TCPSocket.new`. This algorithm addresses the issue of delays that occur when DNS resolution for one address family takes too long, or when one of the candidate IP addresses is unavailable, preventing fallback to other options.

At RubyKaigi 2024, I presented how HEv2 was implemented in `Socket.tcp` (written in Ruby). And I initially planned to apply the same approach to `TCPSocket.new` (written in C). However, things did not go as expected, and the work began with reimplementing `Socket.tcp` itself.

This was a deeply rewarding project—so much so that it turned me, a Rubyist with an interest in networking, into a Ruby committer.

In this presentation, I will revisit HEv2, particularly focusing on `TCPSocket.new`, and share the journey of how it was implemented, merged, and eventually released as part of Ruby 3.4.

https://rubykaigi.org/2025/presentations/coe401_.html

RubyKaigi 2025