From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2010-09-03T23:48:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Event Resolution Framework


On Sep 3, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Andrew Wagner wrote:

> So how does the logic decide which event takes priority? And what
> abstraction could a library provide for something like this? It almost seems
> like you would just need to set up some rules, like "Event F always wins",
> "Event K always beats Event D unless some_fact is true", etc.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Terry Michaels <spare@frigidcode.com>wrote:
> 
>> Andrew Wagner wrote:
>>> This sounds interesting. Have you heard of such a library in another
>>> language?
>> 
>> No. Google searches bring up nothing. But then, maybe "Event Resolution"
>> is the wrong terminology(?)

I think you may want to google "rules engine." When I did that, I came up with this hit:

http://rools.rubyforge.org/

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