Announcing Rev 0.2.0: a high performance event library for Ruby, nowwith 1.8.6 support

[Tony Arcieri]

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

Rev is a Ruby library for event-driven network programming built on libev, a
high performance C library incorporating support for a number of
platform-specific event monitoring system calls, including epoll on Linux,
kqueue on OS X/*BSD, and Solaris 10 event ports, as well as support for more
traditional APIs like select() and poll(). However, Rev isn't just an event
API, it includes a complete asynchronous sockets layer for writing network
clients and servers, and even bundles an HTTP client.

Previous releases of Rev targeted the experimental Ruby 1.9 branch only, but
now I'm happy to announce that Rev 0.2.0 incorporates experimental support
for Ruby 1.8.6. This release also brings SSL support, but unfortunately due
to constraints in the OpenSSL extension it is only supported on Ruby 1.9.

RDoc for Rev, including several code examples, is available at:

http://rev.rubyforge.org/

Rev itself is available as a gem and can be installed with:

gem install rev

Enjoy!

 

[Roger Pack]

Previous releases of Rev targeted the experimental Ruby 1.9 branch only,

but
now I'm happy to announce that Rev 0.2.0 incorporates experimental
support
for Ruby 1.8.6. This release also brings SSL support, but unfortunately
due
to constraints in the OpenSSL extension it is only supported on Ruby
1.9.

Does the drop in replacement for the socket class work with 1.8.6 then?
Thanks!
-Roger