From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2010-09-04T03:59:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Event Resolution Framework


On Sep 3, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Jesús Gabriel y Galán wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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/
> 
> Amazing ! We even nearly used the same words :)

Great minds think alike!

Oh, and further down the list of hits is Ruleby which looks like an interesting choice. Plus, it's under active development.

http://github.com/codeaspects/ruleby

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