OVERVIEW

DESCRIPTION

IProcess, short for Inter Process Communication(IPC) Process, is a
Domain Specific Language(DSL) that can be used to share Ruby objects
between processes on UNIX-like operating systems. The wiki has guide-style
tutorials you might want to check out, but the README covers the basics.

This project was formerly known as 'Barney'.

WHY?

I wanted to be able to:

• Spawn a subprocess, apply restrictions to that subprocess, then collect
  and send Ruby objects back to the parent process.
  (that was for a IRC bot evaluating Ruby code).

• Spawn multiple parallel jobs, then collect and send back Ruby objects to the
  parent process.

EXAMPLES

1.

Sequential in nature (each subprocess must finish before another can execute):

name = "rob"

IProcess do |process|
  process.share :name

  process.fork do 
    name.capitalize!
  end
end

p name # => "Rob"

2.

A subprocess is spawned 5 times, in parallel:

workload = IProcess::Job.spawn(5) do
  # Replace this with heavily CPU-bound code ;-) 
  1 + 1
end

p workload # [2, 2, 2, 2, 2]

PLATFORM SUPPORT

supported

• Rubinius
• CRuby (1.8 / 1.9)

unsupported

• MacRuby
• JRuby

INSTALL

gem install iprocess

LICENSE

See LICENSE.txt