Async is a composable asynchronous I/O framework for Ruby based on io-event and timers.
"Lately I've been looking into
async, as one of my projects – tus-ruby-server – would really benefit from non-blocking I/O. It's really beautifully designed." – janko
Features
- Scalable event-driven I/O for Ruby. Thousands of clients per process!
- Light weight fiber-based concurrency. No need for callbacks!
- Multi-thread/process containers for parallelism.
- Growing eco-system of event-driven components.
Usage
Please browse the source code index or refer to the guides below.
Getting Started
This guide gives shows how to add async to your project and run code asynchronously.
Asynchronous Tasks
This guide explains how asynchronous tasks work and how to use them.
Event Loop
This guide gives an overview of how the event loop is implemented.
Compatibility
This guide gives an overview of the compatibility of Async with Ruby and other frameworks.
Best Practices
This guide gives an overview of best practices for using Async.
Contributing
We welcome contributions to this project.
- Fork it.
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature). - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'). - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature). - Create new Pull Request.
See Also
- async-io — Asynchronous networking and sockets.
- async-http — Asynchronous HTTP client/server.
- async-process — Asynchronous process spawning/waiting.
- async-websocket — Asynchronous client and server websockets.
- async-dns — Asynchronous DNS resolver and server.
- async-rspec — Shared contexts for running async specs.
Projects Using Async
- ciri — An Ethereum implementation written in Ruby.
- falcon — A rack compatible server built on top of
async-http. - rubydns — An easy to use Ruby DNS server.
- slack-ruby-bot — A client for making slack bots.