From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2007-10-12T06:34:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Reliable multicasting


On Oct 11, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Christoffer Lernö wrote:

> Does anyone know if anyone of the reliable multicasting protocols  
> exist implemented in ruby?
>
> Actually what I am really looking for is something like JGroups  
> implemented in a language-independent way. I mean jgroups pretty  
> much seems to need java, and I want to integrate something between,  
> java, ruby and perhaps PHP.
>
> Anyway I figured that if there at least is a reliable multicasting  
> in ruby, you could create something JGroups-like on top of that.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

There is a Ruby interface to the Spread toolkit:

Spread: <http://www.spread.org/SpreadPlatforms.html>
rb_spread: <http://rbspread.sourceforge.net/>


Gary Wright