Description
This extension provides a way for ruby to participate in Spread reliable multicast groups.   Spread is available at http://www.spread.org/.  Spread is a local/wide area group communication toolkit that runs on most modern operating systems, developed by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Networking and Distributed Systems.  It allows convenient mechanisms for reliable multicasting information between applications as well as providing  a number of levels of message assurance.

rb_Spread makes the full functionality of Spread accessible in easy methods through Ruby.

Availabilty
rb_Spread is available completely free.  The latest version is 1.0, download the source tar ball here.
Maintainer
rb_Spread is maintained by George Schlossnagle. To ind out more inormation about George and his other projects, visit his homepage.
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