Understanding Metasploit mixins

If you are familiar with programming languages, such as C and Java, you must have come across terms such as functions and classes. Functions in C and classes in Java basically allow code reuse. This makes the program more efficient. The Metasploit Framework is written in the Ruby language. So, from the perspective of the Ruby language, a mixin is nothing but a simple module that is included in a class. This will enable the class to have access to all methods of this module.

So, without going into much detail about programming, you can simply remember that mixins help in modular programming. For instance, you may want to perform some TCP operations, such as connecting to a remote port and fetching some data. Now, to complete this task, you might have to write quite a lot of code altogether. However, if you make use of the already available TCP mixin, you will end up saving the effort of writing the entire code from scratch! You will simply include...