concurrency

Making Refs in Ruby Using Celluloid Actors

I am currently working on a project developing a JRuby server process. The server is in constant communication with multiple front-end clients and back-end processes. The development team decided to make use of the Celluloid Actor library so we could use concurrent objects as a way to deal with the complexity that comes with developing […]

Preventing JRuby Concurrency Errors with Hamster

I was recently working on a small proof-of-concept application with a back-end server written in JRuby. In this proof-of-concept, multiple clients connect to the server to poll for status changes and to request actions be performed as the result of user interactions. The quickest way to keep the server responsive was to just fire up […]