From: Tony Arcieri <tony@...>
Date: 2009-12-08T12:03:49+09:00
Subject: Re: how about ruby's threads?

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On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:

> An additional alternative that is pretty neat is combining an
> event-driven library with Fibers in ruby 1.9.x.
>
> Assuming of course, the existence of an HTTP library in that
> idiom.
>

Revactor provides exactly this with its HTTP client.  Revactor models actors
as fibers and wraps an underlying evented client (the afforementioned
Rev::HttpClient) with them:

http://github.com/tarcieri/revactor/blob/master/lib/revactor/http_client.rb

Here's a concurrent HTTP fetcher written around this HTTP client:

http://github.com/tarcieri/revactor/blob/master/lib/revactor/http_fetcher.rb

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Tony Arcieri
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