EventMachine documentation guides

Welcome to the documentation guides for EventMachine, a fast and simple event-processing library for Ruby programs (à la JBoss Netty, Twisted, Node.js and so on).

Guide list

• Getting started with EventMachine
• Writing event-driven servers
• Writing event-driven clients
• Connection Failure and Recovery
• TLS (aka SSL)
• EventMachine ecosystem: Thin, Goliath, em-http-request, em-websockets, Proxymachine and beyond
• On blocking the event loop: why it is harmful for performance and how to avoid it
• Lightweight concurrency with EventMachine
• Deferrables
• Brief introduction to epoll, kqueue, select
• Working with other IO sources such as the keyboard

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