# Is GServer the best to use? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 5, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-gserver-the-best-to-use/162025 "2009-03-05T00:10:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mifi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-gserver-the-best-to-use/162025/1 "2009-03-05T00:10:48Z")
I am in need of a TCP Server, basically something multithreaded that I can use to pass through data to a database from clients that will connect to the Server. I started playing with an example from the O’Reilly Learning R. book, but when I looked around for some more information I saw the references to GServer. Is this the best one to use? Is there something else that I can use for TCP that anyone can recommend? My real need at this point is to have Clients connect to the Server with information of system status, or scripts that were run and their outputs, and put that in a database. So it doesn’t need to be complex, but I’d like it to be able to handle multiple clients and be able to keep a connection to the database, so there are not too many open sockets; kind of why I want a pass through. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mifi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-gserver-the-best-to-use/162025/2 "2009-03-05T00:14:40Z")
El Jueves, 5 de Marzo de 2009, Michael Furmaniuk escribió: > able to keep a connection to the database, so there are not too many > open sockets; kind of why I want a pass through. > > Any recommendations would be appreciated. GServer is in fact appropiate for that. ---
**Author:** ![mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mifi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-gserver-the-best-to-use/162025/3 "2009-03-05T00:48:37Z")
Iñaki Baz C. wrote: > > their outputs, and put that in a database. So it doesn’t need to be > > complex, but I’d like it to be able to handle multiple clients and be > > able to keep a connection to the database, so there are not too many > > open sockets; kind of why I want a pass through. > > > > Any recommendations would be appreciated. > > GServer is in fact appropiate for that. I agree. Start off with GServer. It’s really easy to use and works well. If, for some reason, that ends up not being able to handle all the connections, then use Eventmachine[1]. -Justin [1] [http://rubyeventmachine.com/](http://rubyeventmachine.com/) ---
**Author:** ![mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mifi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-gserver-the-best-to-use/162025/4 "2009-03-05T00:53:53Z")
El Jueves, 5 de Marzo de 2009, Justin C. escribió: > I agree. Start off with GServer. It’s really easy to use and works well. > If, for some reason, that ends up not being able to handle all the > connections, then use Eventmachine[1]. But consider that EventMachine is not a threaded model, but a reactor one. This can be better or worse for you, depending on your requeriments. ---
**Author:** ![mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mifi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-gserver-the-best-to-use/162025/5 "2009-03-05T00:56:14Z")
On 4 Mar 2009, at 23:46, Justin C. wrote: > > > recommend? My real need at this point is to have Clients connect > > > > GServer is in fact appropiate for that. > > I agree. Start off with GServer. It’s really easy to use and works > well. > If, for some reason, that ends up not being able to handle all the > connections, then use Eventmachine[1]. You can find code examples covering GServer, EventMachine and various other bits of Ruby networking in the presentations link to in my signature. At some point I’ll put them online properly as it seems a lot of people have an interest in this stuff 🙂 Ellie ## Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains [http://slides.games-with-brains.net](http://slides.games-with-brains.net) raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds\_to? :reason ---
**Author:** ![mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mifi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-gserver-the-best-to-use/162025/6 "2009-03-05T13:54:33Z")
Eleanor McHugh wrote: > You can find code examples covering GServer, EventMachine and various > other bits of Ruby networking in the presentations link to in my > signature. At some point I’ll put them online properly as it seems a > lot of people have an interest in this stuff 🙂 This would be great, I need an example sometimes to get me started in the right direction - probably my Perl background. I’ll check out the samples. Thanks for the advice all, I appreciate it. - Michael