literally_promise

LiterallyPromise

Stolen promise implementation from @tenderlove's talk at MWRC 2014.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'literally_promise'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install literally_promise

Usage

require 'literally_promise'

LiterallyPromise::Promise.new do
  puts "omg"
end

Advanced Usage

require 'literally_promise'

my_promise = LiterallyPromise::Promise.new do
  puts "omg it's starting"
  sleep 10
  2 * 2
end

Check the status of a promise:

my_promise.alive? # Checks the to see if a promise is pending
my_promise.stop?  # Checks the to see if a promise is fulfilled
my_promise.status # Shows the status of a promise
my_promise.raise  # halt a promise
my_promise.value  # Check the return value of a promise
my_promise.kill   # Break a promise. .terminate is an alias

Contributing

1. Fork it ( http://github.com/fivetanley/literally_promise/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request