EventMachine

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EventMachine is a software system designed for writing highly scalable applications for Ruby. It provides event-driven I/O using the reactor pattern. EventMachine is the most popular library for concurrent computing in the Ruby programming language.^[2]

Example uses[edit]

EventMachine has been used to build a number of different libraries and frameworks in which concurrency is a performance concern. Some examples include:^[3]

• critical networked applications
• web servers and proxies
• email and IM production systems
• authentication/authorization processors

See also[edit]

• Application server
• Netty (software)
• Node.js
• Twisted (software)

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• EventMachine on GitHub