From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2009-03-05T08:46:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Is GServer the best to use?

I単aki Baz Castillo wrote:
> El Jueves, 5 de Marzo de 2009, Michael Furmaniuk escribi坦:
>   
>> I am in need of a TCP Server, basically something multithreaded that I
>> can use to pass through data to a database from clients that will
>> connect to the Server.  I started playing with an example from the
>> O'Reilly Learning Ruby book, but when I looked around for some more
>> information I saw the references to GServer.  Is this the best one to
>> use?  Is there something else that I can use for TCP that anyone can
>> recommend?  My real need at this point is to have Clients connect to the
>> Server with information of system status, or scripts that were run and
>> their outputs, and put that in a database.  So it doesn't need to be
>> complex, but I'd like it to be able to handle multiple clients and be
>> able to keep a connection to the database, so there are not too many
>> open sockets; kind of why I want a pass through.
>>
>> Any recommendations would be appreciated.
>>     
>
> GServer is in fact appropiate for that.
>
>   

I agree. Start off with GServer. It's really easy to use and works well.
If, for some reason, that ends up not being able to handle all the 
connections, then use Eventmachine[1].

-Justin

[1] http://rubyeventmachine.com/