TServer

This librarie implements a persistant multithread TCP server, it is alternative to ‘gserver' standard librarie. TServer is designed to be inherited by your custom server class. The server can accepts multiple simultaneous connections from clients, can be configured to have a maximum connection and a minimum permanent listener thread. Can be imediatly stopped, gracefull shutdown (dont accept new connection but wait established connection is closed before realy stop) or reloaded (terminate listener after established connection is closed and respawn new).

Example

This example can receive and return simple string from telnet connection.

  require 'tserver'

  class ExampleServer < TServer
    class Listener < TServer::Listener
      def process
        connection.each do |line|
          break if line =~ /(quit|exit|close)/

          log '> ' + line.chomp
          conn.puts Time.now.to_s + '> ' + line.chomp
        end
      end
    end
  end

  # Create the server with logging enabled (server activity is displayed
  # in console with received data)
  server = ExampleServer.new
  server.verbose = true

  # Shutdown the server when script is interupted
  Signal.trap('SIGINT') do
    server.shutdown
  end

  # Start the server (joined is set to true and the line wait on server
  # thread before continue, the default values of this parameter is set to
  # false, you can also use 'server.join' after server.start)
  server.start(true)

  # Now you can open a telnet connection to 127.0.0.1:10001 (telnet 127.0.0.1 10001)
  # and send text (use exit to close the connection)