EventMachine
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Original author(s) | Francis Cianfrocca |
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Initial release | April 13, 2006 |
Stable release | 1.0.0 / September 8, 2012 |
Development status | Active |
Written in | Ruby |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux |
Type | Event-driven networking |
License | GPL or Ruby License |
Website | rubyeventmachine |
EventMachine is a software system designed for writing highly scalable applications for Ruby. It provides event-driven I/O using the reactor pattern. EventMachine is the most popular library for concurrent computing in the Ruby programming language.[1]
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Example uses
EventMachine has been used to build a number of different libraries and frameworks in which concurrency is a performance concern. Some examples include:[2]
- critical networked applications
- web servers and proxies
- email and IM production systems
- authentication/authorization processors