From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2005-01-01T06:31:55+09:00
Subject: FastCGI External Servers

I've just been trying to make ruby work as an external FastCGI
process, rather than one spawned by the webserver.

I've got some hackish code  (also at
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?FCGIExternalServer) that works, but
only with the pure-ruby version of fcgi-0.8.5

  FCGI_PURE_RUBY=true; require 'fcgi'
  require 'socket'
  def handleConnection(request)
    request.out.puts "Content-type: text/html"
    request.out.print "\r\n"
    request.out.puts "Hello World"
    request.finish
  end

  socket = UNIXServer.new('/tmp/fcrb_socket')
  class << socket
    alias :oldaccept :accept
    def accept
      [oldaccept, nil]
    end
  end

  FCGI::Server.new(socket).each_request do |request|
    Thread.start {handleConnection(request)}
  end


Has anyone used the C version to do this? Is there an easier way?

Any suggestions for ways to make the API better? I don't mind putting
work into what might become a new version of fcgi, but I'd love to
avoid re-implementing the wheel.

Ari