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Description

Async is a composable asynchronous I/O framework for Ruby based on nio4r and timers.

Monthly Downloads: 1,169,395
Programming language: Ruby
License: MIT License
Tags: Concurrency     Event-Driven     Async    
Latest version: v1.26.2

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README

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Async is a composable asynchronous I/O framework for Ruby based on io-event and timers.

"Lately I've been looking into async, as one of my projects – tus-ruby-server – would really benefit from non-blocking I/O. It's really beautifully designed." janko

Development Status

Features

  • Scalable event-driven I/O for Ruby. Thousands of clients per process!
  • Light weight fiber-based concurrency. No need for callbacks!
  • Multi-thread/process containers for parallelism.
  • Growing eco-system of event-driven components.

Usage

Please see the project documentation.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to this project.

  1. Fork it.
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature).
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature').
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature).
  5. Create new Pull Request.

See Also

Projects Using Async

  • ciri — An Ethereum implementation written in Ruby.
  • falcon — A rack compatible server built on top of async-http.
  • rubydns — An easy to use Ruby DNS server.
  • slack-ruby-bot — A client for making slack bots.

License

Released under the MIT license.

Copyright, 2017, by Samuel G. D. Williams.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.


*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the async README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.