From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-01-20T16:15:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Mongrel 0.1.0 -- A Fast As Hell Mostly Ruby Web Server

Zed Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is an announce for Mongrel, a mostly Ruby webserver.  I just  
> started it as I was trying to work on solutions for people deploying  
> Ruby web applications, and already it's pretty damn fast.    We're  
> talking really really damn fast.  I mean like people won't believe me  
> that it's this fast and I don't really believe it.

Really? I don't believe you.

> 
> 
> INSTALL
> 
> First off, you can grab it at http://www.zedshaw.com/downloads/ 
> mongrel-0.1.0.tar.bz2 to play with it.
> 
> *** You'll need Ruby 1.8.4, but it's tested on Mac OSX and Linux at  
> least. ***

Ah.  The Windows Challenge.


...

> 
> 
> CAN IT BAKE CHEDDAR?
> 
> So far it's very light and isn't nearly capable enough, so I'm  looking 
> for things people want in a *simple* web app server for  running their 
> Ruby web applications in.  Keep in mind that I'm not  going to be Ruby 
> on Rails specific.  I love all you weirdos.
> 

I've hacked around with WEBrick for various lightweight Web 
services-like things (along the lines of Catapult).   Of particular 
interest are things that sit and spin and spit back data on request. 
Not much heavy logic or calculation, but reaching into Madeleine or 
SQLite or something, where having a simple, pure-Ruby data-managing 
process allows for plain CGI or command-line apps to offload work.

For example, sticking ri/rdoc data into some persistent in-memory 
process to speed up search and display.



James

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