Ractor::LVar

NOTE: This gem is experimental and I don't guarantee to continue maintenance of this gem.

More flexible Ractor-local variable object.

require 'ractor/lvar'

V = Ractor::LVar.new{ 42 }

r = Ractor.new do
  V.ractor_local_value *= 10
  V.ractor_local_value
end

p [V.ractor_local_value, r.take]
#=> [42, 420]

Installation

You need Ruby 3.0 or later.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ractor-lvar'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ractor-lvar

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test-unit to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/ko1/ractor-lvar.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.