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Why on earth do Fibers exist?

by Nikita Misharin —

For a long time, I couldn’t understand what is the purpose of fibers in ruby. I could understand how to use then, but I didn’t understand when or why should I. This blogpost is a result of small research, I’ve do to find my answers.

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You can see a real-world usage of Fibers in Ruby here:

http://myronmars.to/n/dev-blog/2012/03/building-an-around-hook-using-fibers

https://github.com/rosenfeld/rspec_nested_transactions

Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas —

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