I dabble in home automation and am looking for a framework that would
allow me to monitor and react to serial port events. I'm a long-time
Perl user and if anyone is familiar with POE, that's the type of
framework I'm looking for (an Inversion-of-Control framework where I
have agents running in separate threads monitoring serial ports,
triggering events in the main code). I've perused RAA and seen a few
possibilities, but don't see anything recently maintained. Is there a
good match for the type of thing I'm looking to do?
There are several new home automation technologies available now and
they don't yet have serial drivers, so I figure it would be a good time
to attempt the switch to Ruby. Besides, I'm moving to Ruby, VA next
month, so I figure I'd better start learning the language!
I dabble in home automation and am looking for a framework that would
allow me to monitor and react to serial port events. I'm a long-time
Perl user and if anyone is familiar with POE, that's the type of
framework I'm looking for (an Inversion-of-Control framework where I
have agents running in separate threads monitoring serial ports,
triggering events in the main code). I've perused RAA and seen a few
possibilities, but don't see anything recently maintained. Is there a
good match for the type of thing I'm looking to do?
There are several new home automation technologies available now and
they don't yet have serial drivers, so I figure it would be a good
time to attempt the switch to Ruby. Besides, I'm moving to Ruby, VA
next month, so I figure I'd better start learning the language!
If you don't complain about the language Python community has Twisted Matrix
- http://www.twistedmatrix.com - that seems just what are you looking for.
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Il 2006-01-03, Mark Thomas <mrt@thomaszone.com> ha scritto:
I dabble in home automation and am looking for a framework that would
allow me to monitor and react to serial port events. I'm a long-time
Perl user and if anyone is familiar with POE, that's the type of
framework I'm looking for (an Inversion-of-Control framework where I
have agents running in separate threads monitoring serial ports,
triggering events in the main code). I've perused RAA and seen a few
possibilities, but don't see anything recently maintained. Is there a
good match for the type of thing I'm looking to do?
There are several new home automation technologies available now and
they don't yet have serial drivers, so I figure it would be a good time
to attempt the switch to Ruby. Besides, I'm moving to Ruby, VA next
month, so I figure I'd better start learning the language!
--
Lawrence - http://www.oluyede.org/blog
"Anyone can freely use whatever he wants but the light at the end
of the tunnel for most of his problems is Python"
> I dabble in home automation and am looking for a framework that would
> allow me to monitor and react to serial port events. I'm a long-time
> Perl user and if anyone is familiar with POE, that's the type of
> framework I'm looking for (an Inversion-of-Control framework where I
> have agents running in separate threads monitoring serial ports,
> triggering events in the main code). I've perused RAA and seen a few
> possibilities, but don't see anything recently maintained. Is there a
> good match for the type of thing I'm looking to do?
>
> There are several new home automation technologies available now and
> they don't yet have serial drivers, so I figure it would be a good
> time to attempt the switch to Ruby. Besides, I'm moving to Ruby, VA
> next month, so I figure I'd better start learning the language!
>
> - Mark.
- Ruby/Event is now dead.
- IO::Reactor has been stuck at 0.0.6 since 2003 (effectively dead)
- event-loop looks promising.
- there are a few others, mostly in alpha stages, that focus on file
descriptors
- I have asked a similar question before (Sorry, forgot!) but
event-loop wasn't announced at that time.
Yes, I considered Twisted. But it evidently has a VERY steep learning
curve; many experienced Python people are put off by it. If I had to
resort to a non-Ruby solution I'd use POE, but really I'd like to find
a Ruby solution.
Yes, I considered Twisted. But it evidently has a VERY steep learning
curve; many experienced Python people are put off by it. If I had to
resort to a non-Ruby solution I'd use POE, but really I'd like to find
a Ruby solution.
also, have you looked at the new Oreilly Twisted book. It has a nice
cookbook-y feel to setting up clients and servers for existing
protocols, rather than rolling your own, altho Amazon review noted it's
a slim book and testing gets short shrift.
