# ANN: Rev 0.2.4, a libev-based event framework, now with Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 support

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 2, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rev-0-2-4-a-libev-based-event-framework-now-with-ruby-1-8-7-and-1-9-1-support/159189 "2009-02-02T03:21:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![murfhy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@murfhy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/murfhy)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rev-0-2-4-a-libev-based-event-framework-now-with-ruby-1-8-7-and-1-9-1-support/159189/1 "2009-02-02T03:21:04Z")

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Rev is a high performance event library for Ruby, based around the libev  
C  
library. It’s similar to EventMachine, but builds on the Ruby core  
types  
including IO, Socket/TCPSocket and the Ruby OpenSSL library, and exposes  
an  
object-oriented interface to event reception.

Rev also forms the basis of the Revactor actor-based concurrency library  
for  
Ruby 1.9 (see [http://revactor.org](http://revactor.org)). This release of Rev includes  
support  
for Ruby 1.9.1 and will allow you to continue using Revactor on Ruby  
1.9.1.  
Also included is support for Ruby 1.8.7. Support for 1.8.6 is still  
included as well.

This release also brings with it initial support for Windows,  
contributed by  
Roger P… There isn’t presently a gem available for Windows but we  
hope  
to have one soon.

Also included is an upgrade to the latest version of libev, version  
3.52.

You can grab this release from:

[http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=5080](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=5080)

Or “gem install rev” as soon as the gem has propagated to all of the  
mirrors.

Additional information about Rev is available at:

[http://rev.rubyforge.org/rdoc/](http://rev.rubyforge.org/rdoc/)

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**Author:** ![murfhy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@murfhy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/murfhy)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rev-0-2-4-a-libev-based-event-framework-now-with-ruby-1-8-7-and-1-9-1-support/159189/2 "2009-02-02T16:38:25Z")

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> This release also brings with it initial support for Windows,  
> contributed by  
> Roger P… There isn’t presently a gem available for Windows but we  
> hope  
> to have one soon.

As a note, AFAIK this compiles out of the box with ruby mingw + devkit  
[1].  
Enjoy.  
-=r  
[1]

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