= evdispatch

* http://rubyforge.org/projects/evdispatch/

== DESCRIPTION:

A high performance event based network request library. Send requests to a
background thread running an event loop based on libev. Designed to make
multiple simultaneous requests while performing other foreground tasks.

== FEATURES

* Support high concurrency HTTP requests

== PROBLEMS:

* Add support to select responses from a pipe instead of having it all buffer 
  directly in memory

== SYNOPSIS:

  FIX (code sample of usage)

== REQUIREMENTS:

  Using ruby dispatch interface:

  require 'evdispatch'

  # create a new dispatch loop
  d = Evdispatch::Loop.new

  # start the event loop thread

  # send a dispatch http request and store a handle to the request
  google_id = d.request_http("http://www.google.com/")

  # do some processing and later on check for the response
  response = d.response( google_id )

  puts response[:body]

  # sometime later you can stop the event loop
  d.stop

== INSTALL:

  sudo gem install evdispatch

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2008 Todd A. Fisher

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