From: Eivind Eklund Date: 2008-01-21T21:57:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Announcing Revactor: an Actor model implementation for Ruby 1.9 On Jan 21, 2008 8:13 AM, Tony Arcieri wrote: > I'm pleased to announce the initial public availability of Revactor, an > Actor framework for Ruby 1.9. The Actor model has seen increasing popularity > in languages like Erlang and Scala. Revactor adds asynchronous message > passing to the Fibers mechanism, easing the development of concurrent > programs using them. You can read more about the Actor model here: > > http://revactor.org/philosophy/ I noticed this use the Case gem to match patterns. Compared to what you detail, you should be able to get even more flexibility for at least some cases by using the matching framework that's in types.rb - http://people.freebsd.org/~eivind/ruby/types/ Eivind.