From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-06-18T00:40:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Multitasking server?

mrt@thomaszone.com wrote:
> Disclaimer: Ruby newbie here.
>
> Does Ruby have a multitasking server that will react to events and run
> user code based on those events? I'm not looking for a specialized
> server that is only web or tcp. I would like to handle other things as
> well, say for example incoming serial data.
>
> In Perl, I would use POE (http://poe.perl.org/?What_POE_Is) for such a
> thing, and in Python there is the Twisted framework
> (http://twistedmatrix.com/).
>
> Thanks in advance.

You have threads and DRB (which uses threads internally).  Although
threads are non native they do their job pretty good.  Is it that what you
looked for?

Kind regards

    robert