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Non-blocking thread-pool based workers for blocking operations.
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 Dependencies

Development

~> 1.16
~> 10.0
~> 3.0

Runtime

~> 1.0
~> 1.3
 Project Readme

Async::Worker

Provides a thread-pool backed work queue for executing blocking operations in a non-blocking fashion using async. Experimental

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Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'async-worker'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install async-worker

Usage

Create a pool and execute jobs using it:

Async::Reactor.run do |task|
	# Make a pool with two workers:
	pool = Async::Worker::Pool.new(2)
	
	tasks = 5.times.collect do
		task.async do
			# Add the work to the queue and wait for it to complete:
			pool.async do
				sleep 0.1
			end
		end
	end
	
	tasks.each(&:wait)
	
	pool.close
end

Contributing

  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

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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 ACTWorkerN OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTWorkerN WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.