From: Dan Fitzpatrick <dan@...>
Date: 2005-01-02T00:50:56+09:00
Subject: Re: FastCGI External Servers

Aredridel wrote:

>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
>
>  
>
I am interested in this subject and have looked at scgi 
<http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/scgi/> and mod_webware 
<http://www.webwareforpython.org/Webware/WebKit/Docs/InstallGuide.html#mod-webkit>. 
I have just been exploring these because I would like to have an 
external ruby server as well. I would be interested in implementing one 
of these for Ruby. I assume that in either case you could use the 
existing Apache module and just implement the app server code in Ruby/C. 
Another option (I think) is building drb module for Apache that would 
communicate with a ruby server via drb. Maybe you could even use 
mod_ruby to do the drb communication. The mod_ruby script would be 
relatively static. All application changes would be done on the ruby app 
server. If you are interested in working on any of these (or something 
similar) let me know. I'd like to build it this month. However I am new 
to Ruby so am a little slow at it now - still spending a lot of time in 
the reference docs.

Dan