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nio4r provides an abstract, cross-platform stateful I/O selector API for Ruby.
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I/O selectors are the heart of "reactor"-based event loops, and monitor multiple
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I/O objects for various types of readiness, e.g. ready for reading or writing.
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The most similar API provided by Ruby today is Kernel.select, however the select
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API requires you to pass in arrays of all of the I/O objects you're interested
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in every time. nio4r provides a more object-oriented API that lets you register
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I/O objects with a selector then handle them when they're selected for various
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types of events.
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nio4r is modeled after the Java NIO API, but simplified for ease-of-use.
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Its goals are:
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- Expose high-level interfaces for stateful IO selectors
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- Keep the API small to maximize both portability and performance across many
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different OSes and Ruby VMs
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- Provide inherently thread-safe facilities for working with IO objects
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WWW: https://github.com/socketry/nio4r
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