# Reliable multicasting **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 11, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reliable-multicasting/116990 "2007-10-11T21:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Christoffer\_LernSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@Christoffer\_LernSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christoffer_LernSSS)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reliable-multicasting/116990/1 "2007-10-11T21:57:58Z")
Does anyone know if anyone of the reliable multicasting protocols exist implemented in ruby? Actually what I am really looking for is something like JGroups implemented in a language-independent way. I mean jgroups pretty much seems to need java, and I want to integrate something between, java, ruby and perhaps PHP. Anyway I figured that if there at least is a reliable multicasting in ruby, you could create something JGroups-like on top of that. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. /Christoffer ---
**Author:** ![Christoffer\_LernSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@Christoffer\_LernSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christoffer_LernSSS)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reliable-multicasting/116990/2 "2007-10-11T23:35:15Z")
On Oct 11, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Christoffer Lernö wrote: > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. There is a Ruby interface to the Spread toolkit: Spread: [http://www.spread.org/SpreadPlatforms.html](http://www.spread.org/SpreadPlatforms.html) rb\_spread: [http://rbspread.sourceforge.net/](http://rbspread.sourceforge.net/) Gary W. ---
**Author:** ![Christoffer\_LernSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@Christoffer\_LernSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christoffer_LernSSS)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 12:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reliable-multicasting/116990/3 "2007-10-12T00:53:38Z")
On Oct 11, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Christoffer Lernö wrote: > Does anyone know if anyone of the reliable multicasting protocols > exist implemented in ruby? check out spread, there are ruby bindings for it. [The Spread Toolkit](http://www.spread.org/SpreadPlatforms.html) a @ [http://codeforpeople.com/](http://codeforpeople.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Christoffer\_LernSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@Christoffer\_LernSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christoffer_LernSSS)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 7:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reliable-multicasting/116990/4 "2007-10-12T07:02:57Z")
> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > There is a Ruby interface to the Spread toolkit: > > Spread: [http://www.spread.org/SpreadPlatforms.html](http://www.spread.org/SpreadPlatforms.html) > rb\_spread: [http://rbspread.sourceforge.net/](http://rbspread.sourceforge.net/) Ah, I should have mentioned I did check out spread, but its not a canidate due to its need for a separate daemon process. /Christoffer ---
**Author:** ![Christoffer\_LernSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@Christoffer\_LernSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christoffer_LernSSS)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 7:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reliable-multicasting/116990/5 "2007-10-12T07:25:44Z")
On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:02 PM, Christoffer Lernö wrote: > Ah, I should have mentioned I did check out spread, but its not a > canidate due to its need for a separate daemon process. maybe it can be done - but it seems any reliable multicasting platform is going to have this requirement - after all someone needs to be listening on a port(s) to get messages right? what’s the alternative to not having a daemon? btw - email is a good alternative for some applications - it’s pretty dang reliable 😉 a @ [http://codeforpeople.com/](http://codeforpeople.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Christoffer\_LernSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@Christoffer\_LernSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christoffer_LernSSS)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reliable-multicasting/116990/6 "2007-10-12T17:03:40Z")
On 12 Oct 2007, at 07:25, ara.t.howard wrote: > On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:02 PM, Christoffer Lernö wrote: > > > Ah, I should have mentioned I did check out spread, but its not a > > canidate due to its need for a separate daemon process. > > maybe it can be done - but it seems any reliable multicasting > platform is going to have this requirement - after all someone > needs to be listening on a port(s) to get messages right? > what’s the alternative to not having a daemon? Well, apparently in JGroups there is no daemon, everything seems to be handled in each “client” to ensure FIFO, lossless transmission etc. /C