From: andrew mcelroy <sophrinix@...>
Date: 2011-08-11T00:36:55+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] cool.io 1.1.0 - a cool event library for Ruby

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On Aug 10, 2011 10:28 AM, "Tony Arcieri" <tony.arcieri@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> cool.io has a cool new version... 1.1.0
>
> Website: http://coolio.github.com/
> Github: https://github.com/tarcieri/cool.io
>
> cool.io provides a snazzy Sinatra-like DSL for building event-driven
> applications in Ruby. It's kind of like Node.js or EventMachine, but if
> cool.io were a sharply dressed man in a tuxedo with the funkiest hair
you've
> ever seen, EventMachine would be the unshaven nasty smelling bum wearing a
> potato sack covered in his own vomit. Node.js would be the crazy white guy
> with an afro in pink sunglasses and wearing retro white polyester disco
garb
> who won't stop doing the robot. While disturbing on some levels and
evoking
> thoughts of "what the hell is wrong with that man?",

...and raps like this http://m.soundcloud.com/marak/marak-the-node-js-rap

Andrew McElroy


at some level you must
> admire his coordination and technical dance prowess. All that said,
Cool.io
> is built on the same event library as Node.js: libev.
>
> Here are the changes in 1.1.0:
>
> * Fix firing of Coolio::HttpClient#on_request_complete (#15)
> * Fix failure to resolve Init_cool symbol on win32 mingw (#14)
> * Fix closing /etc/hosts in the DNS resolver (#12)
> * Refactor StatWatcher to pass pervious and current path state ala Node.js
> * spec:valgrind Rake task to run specs under valgrind
> * Use rake-compiler to build cool.io
> * Upgrade to libev 4.04
> * Switch from Jeweler to Bundler for the gem boilerplate
>
> Enjoy!
>
> --
> Tony Arcieri

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