Concurrent GEM for Ruby ?

jamesl

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Apr 25, 2009, 7:40:31 PM4/25/09

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Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone would like to see a Concurrent Library for
Ruby, like the Java javax.concurrent library ?

I know you can just use this library from jruby, but Im thinking more
of a idiomatic Ruby library, which could also be used ontop of jruby.

If you are interested having such a library please can you let me know
via an email to james <underscore> ladd <at> hotmail <dot> com ?

Rgs, James.
www.jamesladdcode.com

Tony Arcieri

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Apr 25, 2009, 8:52:37 PM4/25/09

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On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:45 PM, jamesl <ladd....@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm wondering if anyone would like to see a Concurrent Library for
> Ruby, like the Java javax.concurrent library ?
>

There are quite a few libraries that provide concurrency strategies already

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jamesl

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Apr 25, 2009, 9:05:49 PM4/25/09

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On Apr 26, 10:52 am, Tony Arcieri <t...@medioh.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:45 PM, jamesl <ladd.ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm wondering if anyone would like to see a Concurrent Library for
> > Ruby, like the Java javax.concurrent library ?
>
> There are quite a few libraries that provide concurrency strategies already
>
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> Tony Arcieri
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Like ? Do you have a few URL's to share?

jamesl

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Apr 25, 2009, 11:40:15 PM4/25/09

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> Like ? Do you have a few URL's to share?

Not sure why I didnt find this the other day
http://moonbase.rydia.net/mental/blog/programming/the-future-of-the-omnibus

Suresh Kk

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Apr 26, 2009, 12:44:15 AM4/26/09

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Please have a look at revactor
http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/31492/revactor-0.1.4.gem
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Robert Klemme

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Apr 26, 2009, 5:53:42 AM4/26/09

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2009/4/26 jamesl <ladd....@gmail.com>:

> I'm wondering if anyone would like to see a Concurrent Library for
> Ruby, like the Java javax.concurrent library ?

Some building blocks are part of the standard library already: Mutex,
Monitor, MonitorMixin, Queue.

> If you are interested having such a library please can you let me know
> via an email to james <underscore> ladd <at> hotmail <dot> com ?

This is a public forum. Why should only you benefit from answers?

Kind regards

robert

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Tony Arcieri

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Apr 26, 2009, 1:04:14 PM4/26/09

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On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 7:10 PM, jamesl <ladd....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Like ? Do you have a few URL's to share?
>

Well, I'm not sure what you're after. Two libraries for actor-based
concurrency (one of them mine) have been linked, but those aren't really
anything like java.util.concurrent.

Are you wanting a small framework for backgrounding work into "thread"
pools? (which would more likely be implemented as process pools)

Ruby's threads provide only sequential execution, since Ruby's memory model
is inherently sequential. For concurrent processing it's best to farm
things off to additional processes so that the OS's scheduler can make them
concurrent. There are packages to do this as well (e.g. BackgroundDRb)

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Louis-Philippe

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Apr 27, 2009, 10:59:15 AM4/27/09

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If you are looking for a process pool or similar,
http://abundance.rubyforge.org/
it forks an n amount of concurrent process workers then seed/harvest them by
unix sockets communication,

2009/4/26 Tony Arcieri <to...@medioh.com>