Celluloid
Actor-based concurrent object framework for Ruby (by celluloid)
EventMachine
EventMachine: fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs (by eventmachine)
| Celluloid | EventMachine | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | |
| 3,884 | 4,269 | |
| 0.1% | 0.1% | |
| 0.0 | 8.7 | |
| about 1 year ago | 6 months ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | Ruby License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Celluloid
Posts with mentions or reviews of Celluloid.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-01.
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There are a *lot* of actor framework projects on Cargo.
Speaking as someone who has used Erlang longer than most, who created a pre-Elixir-like language for Erlang's BEAM VM, and who routinely listens to Carl Hewitt's rants about why Erlang actors are bad, and who tried to make a Ruby actor library after using innumerable other library-level actor solutions...
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Best of (Ruby) Gems Series - What's Next? What's Hot?
Celluloid
EventMachine
Posts with mentions or reviews of EventMachine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-07.
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I don’t get all the hate for PHP and at this point I am too afraid to ask.
You could also use something like EventMachine (In ruby), Twisted (Python), Node (JS) or ReactPHP (for PHP) that will use the language and turn it into a web application server, and then you'll have only one long running process that handle all your requests with shared memory. You could even use something more fancy like RoadRunner in the case of PHP.
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Newb here: have you written your own web server? Seeking advice
Maybe check out EventMachine. You can roll your own using sockets if you don't want to use a library.
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Best of (Ruby) Gems Series - What's Next? What's Hot?
EventMachine
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Celluloid and EventMachine you can also consider the following projects:
Concurrent Ruby - Modern concurrency tools including agents, futures, promises, thread pools, supervisors, and more. Inspired by Erlang, Clojure, Scala, Go, Java, JavaScript, and classic concurrency patterns.
Async Ruby - An awesome asynchronous event-driven reactor for Ruby.
Polyphony - Fine-grained concurrency for Ruby