TServer¶ ↑

Author: Yann Lugrin (yann.lugrin at sans-savoir dot net)
Copyright: Copyright © 2007-2008 Yann Lugrin
Licence: MIT

Last version:: 0.2.0

This librarie implements a persistant multithread TCP server, it is alternative to ‘gserver’ standard librarie. TServer is designed to be inherited by your custom server class. The server can accepts multiple simultaneous connections from clients, can be configured to have a maximum connection and a minimum permanent listener thread. Can be imediatly stopped, gracefull shutdown (dont accept new connection but wait established connection is closed before realy stop) or reloaded (terminate listener after established connection is closed and respawn new).

Example¶ ↑

This example can receive and return simple string from telnet connection.

require 'tserver'

class ExampleServer < TServer
  class Listener < TServer::Listener
    def process
      connection.each do |line|
        break if line =~ /(quit|exit|close)/

        log '> ' + line.chomp
        conn.puts Time.now.to_s + '> ' + line.chomp
      end
    end
  end
end

# Create the server with logging enabled (server activity is displayed
# in console with received data)
server = ExampleServer.new
server.verbose = true

# Shutdown the server when script is interupted
Signal.trap('SIGINT') do
  server.shutdown
end

# Start the server (joined is set to true and the line wait on server
# thread before continue, the default values of this parameter is set to
# false, you can also use 'server.join' after server.start)
server.start(true)

# Now you can open a telnet connection to 127.0.0.1:10001 (telnet 127.0.0.1 10001)
# and send text (use exit to close the connection)