Ruby on Rails

Your post has been very helpful, I tried something like what you
posted, but it didn't
quite make sense to me.

 If you look at what I have currently below, I have to have this
sleep(30) at the bottom which is not optimal.
a join on the thread doesn't work.

 I also tried run_block() instead of run() with no luck.

 I guess if I do everything inside of a EM that doesn't take too long,
it wouldn't matter, but I am trying to get an idea of
how this sort of thing should work

#########################

require 'eventmachine'

require 'faye'



client = Faye::Client.new('http://localhost:9292/faye')

thr = nil

if !EM.reactor_running?
   thr = Thread.new do
     EM.run do

       puts 'in ev machine'

       client.subscribe('/messages/public') do |message|
         puts message.inspect
       end

       puts '1'

       client.publish('/messages/public', 'username' => 'Joe',

                     'msg' => "hey there againzoggle")
       sleep 10
       puts '2'

       client.publish('/messages/public', 'username' => 'Joe',
                     'msg' => "hey there again")

       puts 'end of ev machine block'
     end
   end

 end

puts 'wait for running'
sleep 0.1 until EM.reactor_running?

sleep 30

puts 'end of client'