From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-04-17T09:17:20+09:00
Subject: Re: example


"Brian Candler" <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote in message
[snip]

> > Does anybody known a good link for this?
>
> I don't know about good links... but if I were doing this, I would run the
> data receiver as a separate thread. It then simply has to receive
messages,
> and when it has a complete message that it wants to do something with, it
> just does. This might mean putting it in a queue which the main thread
picks
> from. You can use mutexes and condition variables to make the queue
> thread-safe, and to allow the main thread to sleep until a message
arrives.

And if you want to receive data from multiple distributed data points, you
may
want to build a distributed Ruby architecture using dRuby: makes it very
simple,
yet elegant and powerful.See http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=druby

HTH,
-- shanko