From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-10-11T21:24:38+09:00
Subject: Re: event based model - best way to implement?

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, snacktime wrote:

> I am currently using perl's POE to communicate with the asterisk manager
> interface, but I would like a ruby implementation. A server will connect to
> asterisk and read events as they become available. The webserver will
> connnect periodically to retrieve any available events and to optionally
> send more requests.
>
> My first thought was to use a simple select loop in the server combined with
> observers, and have the webserver communicate via drb. I could use http for
> the server also to make it easy for ajax calls to communicate directly to
> the server (proxied via apache).
>
> The asterisk manager interface sends events to the connected client (my
> server) pretty much ad hoc whenever asterisk has something to report. In
> other words requests and responses are not necessarily sequential.
>
> Does a simple select loop sound like the way to go here?

are you on windows?

-a
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