Chatterbox
A Simple Chat Server in Ruby
Chatterbox is a dirt-simple and very naive chat server in Ruby. It uses IO.select instead of threads, which means it is event-driven and sexy. It runs in a single thread, but can still serve lots of concurrent uses fairly quickly.
It has no protocol! It has no error handling! It is awesome!
Useage
require 'chatterbox'
server = Chatterbox::Server.new
# Chatterbox::Server.new can take several options,
# including port and host, in a rails-like options hash.
# Chatterbox::Server.new({:port => 13030, :host => "127.0.0.1" })
# for example.
server.start
# Now make a few client sockets connect to it.
sock = TCPSocket.new sock.connect("127.0.0.1", 13030) sock.puts "\name Trogdor" sock_other = TCPSocket.new sock_other.connect(127.0.0.1", 13030) sock_other.puts "\name Peasent"