Dillinger is a simple demonstration of how Tornado can use ZeroMQ.
The ZMQ stream integrates with Tornado using Tornado's IOStream which gives us nonblocking ZMQ sockets for Tornado. Sweet!
We have to patch Tornado's ioloop to use the one provided by ZMQ. The provided surgery.py script will do that.
You can either download a clean copy of Tornado, which is a submodule of this repo, or you can setup a virtualenv.
Tornado is a submodule of this repo. You can run the following command to get the source and then play with this project inside this directory.
$ git submodule update --init
$ env PYTHONPATH="." ./surgery.py
Just run surgery on it's own.
$ ./surgery.py
If you used env PYTHONPATH="." above, please use it for both scripts mentioned below.
Once that's done, turn on zmqnado.py. This is the web front-end and is similar to how you'd write your own request handlers.
I provide a fake_worker.py as a very basic example of what a worker could look like.