[Freeswitch-users] send custom tcp message from esl

I am using esl in Ruby I want to send tcp messages to a server.  When I tried to make my tcpsocket class it did not work it must be messing with the socket setup of esl. Is there a way without the need to manage the sockets seperatley to use els methods to send out custom tcp message. All I need is for a simple string to be fired to tcp port. How can I do this from inside esl.