Newbie: Does Ruby have event driven network libraries?

Ruby
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I made a turn based game and would like to make a back end engine
running on Linux or Mac. The game is turnbased 2 player (think chess
like) but there can be many games going on at once. Speed would not be
the problem since not much data goes between players.

What I need is the following:

Make a Ruby application that is running in some idle loop, but when a
network data packet comes in to notify some event/delegate function to
process the request and go back to idle (or be doing something else).

I dont want polling of sockets, timers, etc etc. Also does Ruby have
event driven frameworks in general?

Thanks

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Take a look at eventmachine - http://rubyeventmachine.com/

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There’s also rev:

http://rev.rubyforge.org/

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On Oct 1, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Wyatt Biker wrote:

Ehsanul H. wrote:

Take a look at eventmachine - http://rubyeventmachine.com/

Looks nice. I hope it works on Mac so I can use it.

It works fine under OSX.

cr

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Ehsanul H. wrote:

Take a look at eventmachine - http://rubyeventmachine.com/

Looks nice. I hope it works on Mac so I can use it.

Thanks