From: mrt@...
Date: 2005-06-18T01:10:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Multitasking server?



Robert Klemme wrote:
> 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?

Not really, though I can't find much in English about DRB. However,
using those terms to search RAA brought up IO::Reactor, which looks
like the kind of thing I'm looking for EXCEPT for the fact that it
hasn't been updated since 2003. Is it dead?

- Mark.