From: "Zed A. Shaw" <zedshaw@...>
Date: 2005-07-07T16:01:24+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Ruby/Event a libevent C Extension

Hi Everyone,

I seem to be on a roll with these C extensions.  My latest one is a
fairly faithful wrapping of the libevent library written by Niels Provos
(and others).  For those who don't know libevent is basically like super
kick-ass select and makes very nice fast as hell network servers with
low overhead.

The Ruby/Event extension (since I can't think of another name) wraps
both the raw event API and the bufferevent API with Ruby objects and
modules.  I tried to balance the libevent requirements with the
Ruby/Event design.

This first release is a very initial release to see what people think of
it.  You can check the quick blurb at:

http://www.zedshaw.com/

Included in this release are:

* tar.bz2 source and .gem packages.
* Fairly complete documentation (actually better than libevent's).
* Several classic examples like an echo client/server, simple HTTP GET,
etc.
* Unit test cases.
* Examples try to use both the BufferEvent API and the Event API.

You will need libevent 1.11 as that's what I tested with.

Enjoy, and please send me any feedback you may have about the library.


Zed A. Shaw

P.S.  I'm going to do an SCGI client/server library with this if anyone
is interested in helping out.