[zeromq-dev] ruby binding for zmq

[Charles Remes]

rbzmq is a C extension. It can be used with MRI or Rubinius (but JRuby no longer supports C extensions).

ffi-rzmq uses FFI to interface to libzmq so it is supported by *all* of the Ruby runtimes. I'm the author and may be a bit biased, but it is updated, tested and used quite a bit more than rbzmq.

The APIs exposed by each of them are incompatible meaning that you can't write code for rbzmq and then switch to ffi-rzmq without changing some of your code. I tried to sync this up some time ago but we couldn't agree on how to do it.

I suggest that you use ffi-rzmq.

On Apr 18, 2013, at 12:27 AM, Pritesh Acharya <priteshacharya at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried  rbzmq from https://github.com/zeromq but it doesn't install. I think this binding is no longer support for newer zmq. When I looked around i found ffi-rzmq is also ruby binding for zmq. I wanna know the difference between gem zqm and ffi-zmq. Which one should I use ?
> Thanks,
> Pritesh
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