Revactor released
I’m pleased to announce the initial public availability of Revactor, an Actor framework for Ruby 1.9. The Actor model has seen increasing popularity in languages like Erlang and Scala. Revactor adds asynchronous message passing to the Fibers mechanism, easing the development of concurrent programs using them. You can read more about the Actor model here:
http://revactor.org/philosophy/
Revactor also includes a high performance sockets API, largely compatible with Ruby’s own, but which also seamlessly interoperate with the Actor API. Using this approach means you can simultaneously process messages from both sockets and other Actors. Furthermore, with a small amount of monkeypatching it’s able to run Mongrel, using Actors instead of threads as the underlying concurrency mechanism. Initial tests of the performance of Mongrel on top of Revactor surpass the threaded version.
Revactor is available as a gem and can be installed with:
gem install revactor