# = Rastman is a Ruby interface for the Asterisk Manager API
#
# When creating a new Rastman::Manager instance, it connects to an Asterisk server
# on the manager port (<tt>5038</tt> by default), sends a login request
# and listens to events published by the server. The instance can also
# be used to send Manager API requests to the server.
#
# All the Asterisk Manager API commands are accessible. They can be used in two
# different ways:
#
# - name of the command in lowercase: the command is sent but Rastman doesn't wait
#   for the answer (asynchronous).
#   i.e.: rastman.setvar :variable => "my_time", :value => "12"
#
# - name of the command in lowercase with a bang: the command is sent and Rastman
#   waits for the answer (synchronous). If the answer contains a value (for Getvar)
#   then it is returned, else true is returned.
#   i.e.: value = rastman.getvar! 1, :variable => "extension"
#
# == Source
#
# You can access the source repository using Git version control system
# (http://git.or.cz). The Git repository for rastman is hosted at GitHub:
# git://github.com/mathieul/rastman.git
#
# == Download
#
# You can download Rastman from the Rubyforge project page: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rastman
#
# == Example
# 
#     require "rubygems"
#     require "rastman"
#     
#     rastman = Rastman::Manager.new("myuser", "secret")
#     
#     rastman.add_event_hook(:event) { |evt| puts "Event received: [#{evt.inspect}]"
#     
#     rastman.connect
#     
#     rastman.events(:eventmask => "user,call")
#     
#     rastman.ping!
#     
#     rastman.originate :channel => "SIP/[email protected]",
#	                :context => "default", :exten => "voicemail",
#	                :priority => 1
#
#     response_timeout = 1
#     value = rastman.getvar! response_timeout, :channel => "SIP/5060-44d225d0",
#                 :variable => "extension"
#     
#     rastman.logoff
#