1 = sleepy_penguin - Linux I/O events for Ruby
3 sleepy_penguin provides access to newer, Linux-only system calls to wait
4 on events from traditionally non-I/O sources. Bindings to the eventfd,
5 timerfd, inotify, and epoll interfaces are provided.
9 * Thread-safe blocking operations under both Ruby 1.8 and 1.9.
11 * IO-like objects are backwards-compatible with IO.select.
13 * Epoll interface is fork-safe and GC-safe
15 * Unlike portable event frameworks, the Linux-only Epoll interface
16 allows using edge-triggered I/O for possibly improved performance
18 * Fully-documented and user-friendly API
22 If you're using a packaged Ruby distribution, make sure you have a C
23 compiler and the matching Ruby development libraries and headers.
27 gem install sleepy_penguin
29 Otherwise grab the latest tarball from:
31 http://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/files/
33 Unpack it, and run "ruby setup.rb"
37 You can get the latest source via git from the following locations:
39 git://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin.git
40 git://repo.or.cz/sleepy_penguin.git (mirror)
42 You may browse the code from the web and download the latest snapshot
45 * http://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin.git (cgit)
46 * http://repo.or.cz/w/sleepy_penguin.git (gitweb)
48 Inline patches (from "git format-patch") to the mailing list are
49 preferred because they allow code review and comments in the reply to
52 We will adhere to mostly the same conventions for patch submissions as
53 git itself. See the Documentation/SubmittingPatches document
54 distributed with git on on patch submission guidelines to follow. Just
55 don't email the git mailing list or maintainer with sleepy_penguin patches.
59 All feedback (bug reports, user/development discussion, patches, pull
60 requests) go to the mailing list: mailto:sleepy.penguin@librelist.org
62 * http://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/archives/