Notice
This gem is come from Promising
Promising Future
A glimpse of a promising future in which Ruby supports lazy evaluation.
Overview
Promises and futures both transparently defer the execution of a block. Promises evaluate the given block if and when its result is first needed. Futures evaluate the given block optimistically in another thread.
require 'promising'
require 'future' # you can just require 'future' if using both
x = promise { 1 + 2 }
y = future { sleep 10 && 6 * 7 }
puts x #=> 3
sleep 5 # ... do work for 5 seconds ...
puts y #=> 42, after blocking 5 seconds
Note that this is pretty useless in Ruby's interactive shell irb
, as it
will eagerly evaluate everything as part of its read-eval-print loop,
forcing promises and futures to yield their results.
The library has been tested with Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.1 and JRuby 1.5.0. YARD documentation is available at http://promising.rubyforge.org/
Classes
- {Promise}
- {Future}
Installation
The library is distributed via RubyGems:
$ gem install promising
Source
The source is available at http://github.com/fsword/promising
Author
Unlicense
Promising Future is free and unencumbered public domain software. For more information, see http://unlicense.org/ or the accompanying UNLICENSE file.