https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius-actor

An Actor library that uses the Rubinius core API
https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius-actor

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An Actor library that uses the Rubinius core API

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius-actor
• Owner: rubinius
• License: other
• Created: 2011-06-15T22:07:17.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-12-11T23:42:26.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-26T07:36:18.720Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
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• Size: 136 KB
• Stars: 23
• Watchers: 47
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.txt
  • License: LICENSE

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Rubinius-Actor

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An implementation of the Actor concurrency model, from the Rubinius project.

Depends on Rubinius's core API class "Channel", built into Rubinius and

available for JRuby via the rubinius-core-api gem.

Installation

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gem install "rubinius-actor"

Usage

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require 'rubinius/actor'

include Rubinius::Actor

this_io = STDOUT

actor = Actor.spawn{loop{

  Actor.receive{|m|

    m.when(IO){|io|

      sleep 3

      io << "\n***\nHi there! It's #{Time.now}!\n***\n"}

    }

  }

}

actor << this_io

Contribution

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TODO

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Credits

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Copyright 2007-2008  MenTaLguY 

          2007-2011  Evan Phoenix