sleepy_penguin provides access to newer, Linux-only system calls to wait on events from traditionally non-I/O sources. Bindings to the eventfd, timerfd, inotify, and epoll interfaces are provided.
Thread-safe blocking operations under both Ruby 1.8 and 1.9.
IO-like objects are backwards-compatible with IO.select.
Epoll interface is fork-safe and GC-safe
Unlike portable event frameworks, the Linux-only Epoll interface allows using edge-triggered I/O for possibly improved performance
Fully-documented and user-friendly API
If you’re using a packaged Ruby distribution, make sure you have a C compiler and the matching Ruby development libraries and headers.
If you use RubyGems:
gem install sleepy_penguin
Otherwise grab the latest tarball from:
bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/files/
Unpack it, and run “ruby setup.rb”
You can get the latest source via git from the following locations:
git://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin.git git://repo.or.cz/sleepy_penguin.git (mirror)
You may browse the code from the web and download the latest snapshot tarballs here:
repo.or.cz/w/sleepy_penguin.git (gitweb)
Inline patches (from “git format-patch”) to the mailing list are preferred because they allow code review and comments in the reply to the patch.
We will adhere to mostly the same conventions for patch submissions as git itself. See the Documentation/SubmittingPatches document distributed with git on on patch submission guidelines to follow. Just don’t email the git mailing list or maintainer with sleepy_penguin patches.
All feedback (bug reports, user/development discussion, patches, pull requests) go to the mailing list: sleepy.penguin@librelist.org
Originally generated with the Darkfish Rdoc Generator 2, modified by wrongdoc.
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