From: Mark Thomas <mrt@...>
Date: 2006-01-04T06:12:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Event framework?


Robert Klemme wrote:
> Mark Thomas <mrt@thomaszone.com> wrote:
> > I dabble in home automation and am looking for a framework that would
> > allow me to monitor and react to serial port events. I'm a long-time
> > Perl user and if anyone is familiar with POE, that's the type of
> > framework I'm looking for (an Inversion-of-Control framework where I
> > have agents running in separate threads monitoring serial ports,
> > triggering events in the main code). I've perused RAA and seen a few
> > possibilities, but don't see anything recently maintained. Is there a
> > good match for the type of thing I'm looking to do?
> >
> > There are several new home automation technologies available now and
> > they don't yet have serial drivers, so I figure it would be a good
> > time to attempt the switch to Ruby. Besides, I'm moving to Ruby, VA
> > next month, so I figure I'd better start learning the language! :-)
> >
> > - Mark.
>
> IIRC there was a discussion about this recently.  You might find it by
> searching the archives at
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml

>From this, I have gleaned the following:
- Ruby/Event is now dead.
- IO::Reactor has been stuck at 0.0.6 since 2003 (effectively dead)
- event-loop looks promising.
- there are a few others, mostly in alpha stages, that focus on file
descriptors
- I have asked a similar question before (Sorry, forgot!) but
event-loop wasn't announced at that time.

I think I'll try out event-loop. 

Thanks,
- Mark.