# Dramatis actor library prerelease

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dramatis-actor-library-prerelease/135561>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 23, 2008, 6:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dramatis-actor-library-prerelease/135561 "2008-04-23T06:28:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 6:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dramatis-actor-library-prerelease/135561/1 "2008-04-23T06:28:30Z")

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A prerelease of dramatis has gone up on http:://dramatis.mischance.net.

dramatis is an actor library for dynamic languages. It allows developers  
to  
write concurrent programs using the actor model rather than having to  
code  
against lower level thread APIs.

This prerelease of dramatis is implemented in Ruby (a Python port has  
started) and runs on Ruby 1.8.6, Ruby 1.9, and recent JRuby 1.1.1 RCs  
(with  
a very little bit of testing done against Rubinius). It was developed  
and  
tested primarily on Linux and OS X. (A short attempt to run the specs on  
Windows under cygwin failed miserably.)

This is a prerelease in code maturity (it’s been only vetted by a couple  
of  
people) and packaging: it is not yet available as a gem. Currently the  
code  
can be accessed via git at git://github.com/dramatis/dramatis.git.

The project web site is [http://dramatis.mischance.net](http://dramatis.mischance.net). This includes  
access  
to the source code repository, issue tracker, rdoc documentation, and a  
tutorial. Mailing list at [http://groups.google.com/group/dramatis](http://groups.google.com/group/dramatis) and  
IRC at  
#dramatis on [irc.freenode.net](http://irc.freenode.net).

If you’re daring and interested in actors and concurrency, have at.