From: Brian McCallister <brianm@...>
Date: 2006-02-02T07:22:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Mongrel HTTP Library 0.2.0 (Fast And RubyForgified)

Hmm, nice feature would be able to stop a running server...

-Brian

On Jan 30, 2006, at 10:30 PM, Zed Shaw wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm happy to announce the 0.2.0 release of Mongrel -- the fastest  
> HTTP 1.1 library Ruby has yet.
>
> http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ -- ruby docs lame page.
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel/  -- project page.
>
> Special thanks to Tom Copland for setting up my RubyForge goodness,  
> and to Why for kicking in time to get the Camping examples up to  
> snuff.
>
> This release should strike a good balance between being fast and  
> being stable on all platforms.
>
> == Gems And Source
>
> You can get this release of Mongrel via RubyGems in the usual way:
>
>   gem install mongrel
>
> Please let me know if this don't install.  You can also hit the  
> project page and download a full .tgz source file if you hate  
> RubyGems.
>
>
> == Status
>
> This release mostly just focuses on the core of Mongrel.  I've done  
> just about everything I know to make it the fastest thing possible  
> short of sacrificing goats and small children (but there was this  
> one dude on IRC).  I'll leave it to others to compare for now but  
> the main purpose of this release is to do any final fine tunings  
> and really pound on it to make it stable.
>
> The other major change is that the HttpResponse class is now fully  
> functioning and should be easy for people to use.  It does not  
> support the CGI library yet but I've got devious evil plans to set  
> my skills on the CGI library as well.
>
>
> == Example
>
> This example is from the examples/simpletest.rb file:
>
> require 'mongrel'
>
>  class SimpleHandler < Mongrel::HttpHandler
>     def process(request, response)
>       response.start(200) do |head,out|
>         head["Content-Type"] = "text/plain"
>         out.write("hello!\n")
>       end
>     end
>  end
>
>  h = Mongrel::HttpServer.new("0.0.0.0", "3000")
>  h.register("/test", SimpleHandler.new)
>  h.run.join
>
> Doesn't really do much but demonstrates the main meat of the  
> system.  Why has also written some Camping (http://rubyforge.org/ 
> projects/camping) samples which should work with the svn version of  
> Camping.
>
>
> == Next Steps
>
> I'd love for people to break the hell out of it and post me some  
> bug reports.  I've tried to do everything I can, but I'm going to  
> get ahold of some HTTP fuzzing stuff and see if I can't do any  
> further damage.
>
> I'm also looking for smart people who might have opinions on  
> Mongrel, what it does, and specifically how you can see using it  
> with your web application framework.  Feel free to join the Mongrel  
> mailing list at http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users  
> and start tossing the ideas around.
>
> Enjoy and let me know what you think.
>
> Zed A. Shaw
> http://www.zedshaw.com/
>