From: Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...>
Date: 2011-12-14T09:20:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Servers, Threads, and the Ruby Way -- Architecture Question

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You might be interested in checking out my library Celluloid:

https://github.com/tarcieri/celluloid

Celluloid is a library for making concurrent objects that each run in their
own thread. It lets you model things like the server processes/threads as
concurrent objects, along with each of the games.

Here's an example of building a TCP server with Celluloid:

https://github.com/tarcieri/celluloid/blob/master/lib/celluloid/tcp_server.rb

Celluloid would let you model the game threads like this:

class Game
  include Celluloid

  ...
end

Communication is handled through normal Ruby method calls. Celluloid also
supports asynchronous method calls which allows concurrent objects to send
a message requesting a call without waiting for a response.

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:47 PM, EP PG <epasquali@hotmail.com> wrote:

> EP PG wrote in post #1036583:
> > Hi there, I'm a TOTAL Ruby newbie, but not new to programming.
>
> [snipped, it is long!]
>
> >
> > Architecture ideas?
> >
>
> OK., I thought of something. Please let me know if it sounds ridiculous.
>
> I will  have 2 processes. ONe is the "server" process which listens on
> two ports via two threads like I already have. The other process is one
> that basically creates a thread for each "game" that gets added to the
> queue. Does this sound reasonable?
>
> Let me know.
>
> Now I only need to find out how to send data from the server process to
> the schedule process. How is this typically done?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -E.
>
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>


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Tony Arcieri

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