= forkify

* http://github.com/dakrone/forkify

== DESCRIPTION:

  forkify.rb makes it easy to process a bunch of data using 'n'
  worker processes. It is based off of forkoff and threadify by Ara Howard.
  It aims to be safe to use on Ruby 1.8.6+ and Ruby 1.9.1+

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

* forkify is _extremely_ beta quality currently.
* NOTE: Hash forkifing returns a 2-dimensional array.
* Spawn processes easily!
* Pool forking requires ruby 1.9.1

== SYNOPSIS:

  Simple usage:

  enumerable = %w( a b c d )
  enumerable.forkify(2) { 'process this block using two worker processes' }
  enumerable.forkify    { 'process this block using the default of 5 processes' }


  Forkify also supports pool forking (instead of forking serially)

  enumerable.forkify(:method => :pool, :procs => 3) { |x| puts x; }
  See http://writequit.org/blog/?p=315 for more details about pool forking.

== REQUIREMENTS:

* Testy - only for running the tests

== INSTALL:

* sudo gem install forkify

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009 Lee Hinman

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