ruby-now prototype created.

lib/namedblock.rb

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+class NamedBlock < Proc
+  def name name
+    @name = name
+  end
+  def to_s
+    @name
+  end
+end

lib/ruby-now.rb

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+# A ruby newbie am I!
+
+require 'eventmachine'
+require 'json'
+require 'util'
+require 'namedblock'
+
+module BidirectionalJsonRadio
+  @@conn = []
+  def self.conn
+    @@conn
+  end
+  def self.registerFunction name, block
+    Util.registerFunction name, block
+  end
+  def initialize
+    @@conn.push self
+  end
+  def post_init
+    send_data Util.functions.keys.to_json
+  end
+  def receive_data data
+    Util.processData(JSON.parse data)
+  end
+  def unbind
+    @@conn.delete self
+  end
+end
+
+EventMachine::run {
+  EventMachine::start_server "127.0.0.1", 8081, BidirectionalJsonRadio
+  BidirectionalJsonRadio.registerFunction('aFunctionObject', lambda{|*a|
+                                            puts a.join(' ')})
+  BidirectionalJsonRadio.registerFunction('otherFunc', lambda{|cb, *a|
+                                            cb.call(a.join(' '))})
+  puts 'running json radio of happiness on port 8081 of your microwave'
+}

lib/util.rb

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+module Util
+  @@closures = {}
+  @@functions = {}
+
+  def self.functions
+    @@functions
+  end
+  def self.registerFunction name, block
+    block = NamedBlock.new(&block)
+    block.name name
+    @@functions[name] = block
+  end
+  def self.processData hash
+    obj = hash['args'][0];
+    case hash['name']
+    when 'rfc'
+      self.callFunc(@@functions[obj['fqn']], obj['args'])
+    else
+      puts 'unidentified json, json'
+    end
+  end
+
+  def self.callFunc func, args
+    func.call *(args.collect{|a|
+                  ((a.is_a?(Hash) && a.has_key?('fqn')) ?
+                   (@@functions.has_key?(a['fqn']) ?
+                    @@functions[a['fqn']] :
+                    (@@closures.has_key?(a['fqn']) ?
+                     @@closures[a['fqn']] :
+                     (lambda{|*args| 
+                        self.send_data({ "name" => "rfc",
+                                         "args" => [{ "fqn" => a['fqn'],
+                                                      "args" => args }] }.to_json) }))) :
+                   (a.is_a?(Proc) ?
+                    (((@@closures[a.to_s] = a) && true) ||
+                     {"fqn" => a.to_s}) :
+                    a))
+                })
+  end
+  def self.send_data str
+    BidirectionalJsonRadio.conn[0].send_data str
+  end
+end

ruby-now.gemspec

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+require 'eventmachine'
+Gem::Specification.new do |s|
+  s.name = 'n00by'
+  s.version = '0.0.1'
+  s.homepage = 'http://nowjs.org'
+
+  s.authors = ["Flotype"]
+  s.email   = ["team@nowjs.org"]
+
+  s.files = `git ls-files`.split("\n")
+
+  s.add_dependency('eventmachine', '>= 1.0.0.beta.1')
+  s.add_dependency('json', '>= 1.5.0')
+
+  s.summary = 'Ruby/NowJS library'
+
+  s.description = "n00by is a Ruby interface for NowJS, designed to be
+  used as the layer of communication between a Node server running
+  NowJS and a Rails server running whatever Ruby app you might have."
+
+end