Aw

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Aw, fork!

Creates a subprocess to execute a block inside.

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Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'aw'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install aw

Usage

It executes the block in a subprocess, and returns the result in the current process:

Aw.fork! { 6 * 7 } # => 42

Of course, it prevents from side effects:

arr = ['foo']

Aw.fork! { arr << 'FUU' } # => ["foo", "FUU"]

arr # => ["foo"]

Exceptions raised within the block are propagated:

Aw.fork! { nil + 1 } # => NoMethodError (undefined method `+' for nil:NilClass)

Security

As a basic form of security Aw provides a set of SHA512 checksums for every Gem release. These checksums can be found in the checksum/ directory. Although these checksums do not prevent malicious users from tampering with a built Gem they can be used for basic integrity verification purposes.

The checksum of a file can be checked using the sha512sum command. For example:

$ sha512sum pkg/aw-0.1.0.gem
548d9f669ded4e622182791a5390aaceae0bf2e557b0864f05a842b0be2c65e10e1fb8499f49a3b9efd0e8eaeb691351b1c670d6316ce49965a99683b1071389  pkg/aw-0.1.0.gem

Versioning

Aw follows Semantic Versioning 2.0.

Contributing

  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 a new Pull Request

License

See LICENSE.md file.

This project is sponsored by:

Sashite