No problem, I would love to contribute! My account is kyledrake on Github.
Right now I'm experimenting with socket keepalive, which I think may be important to keeping socket connections open (per some discussion I found from an Apple dev). If my tests go well I'll send a pull request later tonight!
The one thing I haven't figured out yet is how to stop messages from being dropped after feedback comes in. It has a tendency to silently fail to send messages. My current solution is to check for errors before a write, and do a IO.select on the socket to wait for a read for an arbitrary amount of time. You might want to look at some of the weird stuff I had to do in here.. it's a problem I'd like to figure out how to deal with: https://github.com/geoloqi/lead_zeppelin/blob/master/lib/lea...