Today in #ruby on Freenode someone who was working on an IRC bot was showing off their code and pointed out that it couldn't maintain more than one connection at a time. While I already had a IRC specific chunk of code I used myself to show him, I figured a more general solution would be a good idea. As such I figured I'd encapsulate a network connection in a simple class, so here you go!
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