[zeromq-dev] Right tool for combining Erlang and Ruby processes?

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I want to have an Erlang/Chicago Boss or Elixir/Dynamo web framework 
handling most of the work but delegate text-processing tasks to Ruby so 
I need a couple of Ruby daemons running which can accept parameterised 
connections from Erlang, ie. here's some data, process it and send back 
some text.

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On 07/12/2013 04:34, Matt Connolly wrote:
> Different languages can communicate via ZeroMQ very well. I actually think it’s a great strength of this community is that there are so many bindings available.
>
> My recent use case was using Ruby with the rbczmq gem (to which I contribute) and NetMQ in C#. This has worked perfectly so far. The only catch between them is what string encodings you use as a zmq message payload is simply an array of bytes.
>
> I’ve also found it quite easy using JSON as a serialisation format because it is (a) widely available, (b) extensible. It turns out this is also useful for message validation - it’s not too hard to deliver garbage input to your application, for example: https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/769#issuecomment-29613527
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> For ruby, the rbczmq library is based on the czmq C library, and so it has some extra features which that library provides (e.g. beacon, loop, message & frame objects). It’s also a native C extension, which makes it faster than the ffi-based counterpart, but not compatibly with JRuby on the other hand.
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> https://github.com/methodmissing/rbczmq
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> Regards,
> Matt