Re: [ANN] Haricot, Beanstalkd client

[Matthew Wild <mwild1@...>]

On 28 September 2012 15:08, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I could not find a working Lua client for beanstalkd [1] so I wrote one
> [2] called Haricot (French for "bean").

I put some work into beanstalk-lua[1], which I forked on Github[2]
(aside: yes! me! Github!).

It definitely works, but there was still much that I wanted to do to
make it work well, and be happy with the implementation. I can't
remember the specific issues now, I was only using the basic
operations necessary to implement workers.

> We intend to use Haricot in production at Moodstocks [3] so it will be
> maintained. It is not documented (yet?) but it follows the Beanstalk
> protocol [4] rather closely so you can use it as documentation.

Excellent news! I'll certainly check it out.

Regards,
Matthew

[1]: https://github.com/mrwilson/beanstalk-lua
[2]: https://github.com/mwild1/beanstalk-lua