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Original author(s)
  
Francis Cianfrocca

Written in
  
Ruby

Development status
  
Active

Initial release
  
April 13, 2006; 10 years ago (2006-04-13)

Stable release
  
1.0.0 / September 8, 2012; 4 years ago (2012-09-08)

Operating system
  
Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux

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.

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Example uses

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

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

    • Web application frameworks based on EventMachine

  • Thin web application server
  • Goliath web application server

    • References

    EventMachine Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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