Remove eventmachine from the client/connector side
Remove eventmachine from the server/runner side
Remove the eventmachine gem dependency
Fix specs that were causing the zmq functional server spec to hang
Remove GC.start in Server#enable_gc
Add back encoding to google unittest.pb
Require benchmark tasks, fixed typos
Merge branch 'master' into bj/death_to_em

Conflicts:
	lib/protobuf/evented.rb
	lib/protobuf/rpc/connectors/zmq.rb
Drop heavy load constraints on zmq functional spec
Merge pull request #116 from localshred/bj/death_to_em

Death to EventMachine and it's bloody specs
Merge branch '2-8-stable'
Add gitter chat badge
Merge branch '2-8-stable'

Conflicts:
	README.md
	lib/protobuf/lifecycle.rb
Merge branch '2-8-stable'
Reference 2-8-stable branch in CONTRIBUTING.md guide
Update README url to the wiki
Merge branch '2-8-stable'