Async::IO provides builds on async and provides asynchronous wrappers for IO, Socket, and related classes.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'async-io'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install async-socket

Basic echo server (from spec/async/io/echo_spec.rb):

require 'async/io'

def echo_server(server_address)
	Async::Reactor.run do |task|
		# This is a synchronous block within the current task:
		Async::IO::Socket.accept(server_address) do |client|
			# This is an asynchronous block within the current reactor:
			data = client.read(512)
			
			# This produces out-of-order responses.
			task.sleep(rand * 0.01)
			
			client.write(data.reverse)
		end
	end
end

def echo_client(server_address, data)
	Async::Reactor.run do |task|
		Async::IO::Socket.connect(server_address) do |peer|
			result = peer.write(data)
			
			message = peer.read(512)
			
			puts "Sent #{data}, got response: #{message}"
		end
	end
end

Async::Reactor.run do
	server_address = Async::IO::Address.tcp('0.0.0.0', 9000)
	
	server = echo_server(server_address)
	
	5.times.collect do |i|
		echo_client(server_address, "Hello World #{i}")
	end.each(&:wait)
	
	server.stop
end

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

• async — Asynchronous event-driven reactor.
• async-dns — Asynchronous DNS resolver and server.
• async-rspec — Shared contexts for running async specs.
• rubydns — A easy to use Ruby DNS server.

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