From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T00:51:23+09:00
Subject: Re: event based model - best way to implement?

Have you considered using the reactor pattern?

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/reactor-siemens.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactor_Pattern

A couple of ruby implementations:

http://www.deveiate.org/projects/IO-Reactor/
http://rubystuff.org/treasures/RubyTreasures-0.5/lib/reactor/

Paul