Category

Concurrent Processing

Tools that simplify the writing of concurrent Ruby programs

21.12
A long-lived project that still receives updates
Modern concurrency tools including agents, futures, promises, thread pools, actors, supervisors, and more. Inspired by Erlang, Clojure, Go, JavaScript, actors, and classic concurrency patterns.
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7.22
No release in over 3 years
There's a lot of open issues
EventMachine implements a fast, single-threaded engine for arbitrary network communications. It's extremely easy to use in Ruby. EventMachine wraps all interactions with IP sockets, allowing programs to concentrate on the implementation of network protocols. It can be used to create both network ...
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4.72
No release in over 3 years
Low commit activity in last 3 years
Celluloid enables people to build concurrent programs out of concurrent objects just as easily as they build sequential programs out of sequential objects
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0.49
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A long-lived project that still receives updates
Cool.io provides a high performance event framework for Ruby which uses the libev C library
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0.14
No release in over 3 years
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A Ruby gem for performing work in background threads.
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0.05
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Dataflow concurrency for Ruby (inspired by the Oz language)
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0.01
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Actors based concurrency library for Ruby.
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0.01
No release in over 3 years
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Eventbox is a model of concurrent computation that is used to build thread-safe objects with arbitrary interfaces. It is [kind of advancement](#comparison-threading-abstractions) of the well known [actor model](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model) leveraging the possibilities of the ruby la...
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0.0
No commit activity in last 3 years
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A lightweight, extensible asynchronous event routing framework in Ruby.
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