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EventMachine is a software system designed for writing highly scalable applications for Ruby. It provides event-driven I/O using the reactor pattern. EventMachine is the most popular library for concurrent computing in the Ruby programming language.

Example uses

EventMachine has been used to build a number of different libraries and frameworks in which concurrency is a performance concern. Some examples include:

• critical networked applications
• web servers and proxies
• email and IM production systems
• authentication/authorization processors

See also

• Application server
• Netty (software)
• Node.js
• Twisted (software)

References

1. "Release 1.2.7". 12 May 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
2. "The Ruby Toolbox - Concurrent Processing". Retrieved September 27, 2012.
3. "EventMachine README". GitHub. Retrieved September 27, 2012.

External links

• EventMachine on GitHub

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