javanthropus/io-like — pull request #2 by lwoggardner (2013-01-26 00:20:44+00:00)
Title: Non blocking methods for 1.8 - fixes #1

non blocking methods were of course available prior to 1.9

thought it would be cleaner to implement these for 1.8 before tackling 1.9

note also the updated Rakefile (as a separate commit so you can cherry pick it out if you want)