Swiftcore Swiftiply
http proxy app in ruby. Also includes a monkey patch for mongrel that makes it use eventmachine instead of threads
[Eventmachine-talk] Multiple EM connections on separate threads
using eventmachine and doing work on a seperate thread. Could be good for my pacstream emulator / ftp server.
An EventMachine Tutorial | 20bits
Ruby EventMachine - The Speed Demon - igvita.com
InfoQ: EventMachine: Fast and Scalable Event-Driven I/O Framework
EventMachine Presentation
everburning » Playing with EventMachine
6 Line EventMachine Bugfix = 2x faster GC, +1300% requests/sec at time to bleed by Joe Damato
How to unit test EM-based server? - EventMachine | Google Groups
everburning » EventMachine Screencast — EM-HTTP-Request
Sending Files with EventMachine – The Devver Blog
has_many :bugs, :through = :rails: Introducing Cramp
Non-blocking ActiveRecord & Rails - igvita.com
With a bit of hackery, get a single threaded rails app to respond to 10 requests in 2.2 seconds.
Fastr – A Web Framework for Ruby « chris moos's blog
The core of fastr runs on an EventMachine reactor, which is basically just a big event loop. EventMachine is very capable of maintaining thousands of connections in one instance. This is great when you want an application that supports Comet and chunked responses. There is very minimal overhead in having thousands of connections that have occasional data flowing through.
gist: async-rails3.patch
No Callbacks, No Threads & Ruby 1.9 « Envy Labs
In the talk he discusses the state of the Ruby VM and why we should standardize an asynchronous Ruby stack which takes advantage of Ruby 1.9, Fibers, and non-blocking database drivers to make Ruby (and Rails) more scalable.
Unlimited Novelty: Multithreaded Rails is generally better than Async Rails, and Rainbows is cooler than Node
Behavior-driven + event-driven: eventmachine + rspec « ross·kaff
an approach for testing an Eventmachine server
Threads Fibers Events and Actors
I think the Ruby community needs to give threads another chance: ensure their gems are thread-safe and use Actors when needing to write safe multithreaded code