eventmachine/eventmachine

9 years ago

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EventMachine is an event-driven I/O and lightweight concurrency library for Ruby. It provides event-driven I/O using the Reactor pattern, much like JBoss Netty, Apache MINA, Python’s Twisted, Node.js, libevent and libev.

EventMachine is designed to simultaneously meet two key needs:

Extremely high scalability, performance and stability for the most demanding production environments.
An API that eliminates the complexities of high-performance threaded network programming, allowing engineers to concentrate on their application logic.

This unique combination makes EventMachine a premier choice for designers of critical networked applications, including Web servers and proxies, email and IM production systems, authentication/authorization processors, and many more.

EventMachine has been around since the early 2000s and is a mature and battle tested library.

What EventMachine is good for?

What platforms are supported by EventMachine?

EventMachine supports Ruby >= 1.8.7 and