EventMachine

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.^[1]

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:^[2]

• 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

External links

• Official website

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