From: Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@...>
Date: 2006-02-03T23:39:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Mongrel HTTP Library 0.2.2 (Serving Directories)

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On 2/3/06, Zed Shaw <zedshaw@zedshaw.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Folks,
>
> Another announcement of Mongrel -- the fastest little web server
> library for Ruby yet.  This release is nice in that it should build
> on win32 better and it now sports a small DirHandler that can serve
> directories and files.  This means Mongrel is closer to replacing
> WEBrick as a Rails debug runner.
>
> You can get the releases and information from:
>
> * http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel/ -- project page
> * http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ -- RDoc documentation.
>
> =3D=3D Install and Upgrade
>
> People who use(d) RubyGems can simply do:
>
>   gem install mongrel
>
> -or-
>
>   gem upgrade
>
> And they'll get the new gear.  You can go back to the project page
> and download the source .tgz if you installed using that.
>
> =3D=3D Changes
>
> * Fixed a header so that win32 folks can build it.
> * Added all CGI parameters that didn't cause security or performance
> problems.
> * Forced the sockets to not do reverse name lookup (huge performance
> hit for little benefit).
> * Created a REQUEST_URI parameter that has the original untouched URI
> used in the request.  This is the string used to lookup the handlers
> and create the SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_INFO parameters.
> * Implemented a basic directory serving handler called DirHandler.
> It will serve files in a directory, print a simple directory listing,
> and tries to protect against malicious path requests.
> * Some minor code clean-ups and additional documentation regarding
> constants used.
>
> =3D=3D The DirHandler
>
> The really simple DirHandler is used like this (from the examples/
> simpletest.rb file):
>
> h =3D Mongrel::HttpServer.new("0.0.0.0", "3000")
> h.register("/files", Mongrel::DirHandler.new("."))
> h.run.join
>
> This simply sets things up so that when people go to /files, they get
> the contents of the current directory.  The DirHandler expands the
> path you give it so that when requests come in, it can expand them
> too and make sure that both paths have the same prefix.  If not it
> will reject them.  There is also an option to turn off the directory
> listings using the second parameter to DirHandler.new().
>
> This initial file serving is very simplistic since it doesn't map
> extensions to mime types yet.  It should be a good start for some
> people though.
>
>
> =3D=3D Feedback
>
> Thanks for all the feedback and bug reports so far.  With directory
> serving and complete CGI parameters out of the way I'm going to start
> working on a Rails runner using Mongrel next, and possibly a caching
> system.  Goal for the weekend will be to get a Rails application
> running in Mongrel standalone.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Zed A. Shaw
> http://www.zedshaw.com/
>
>
>
>
Like Daniel Sheppard in the previous version I'm getting errors when
attempting the following on windows:

irb(main):001:0> require_gem 'mongrel'
=3D> true
irb(main):002:0> p Mongrel
NameError: uninitialized constant Mongrel
        from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0>

Looking at the gem install itself, everything seems to have been created
correctly.  I have a mongrel.rb in mongrel's lib dir, just can't seem to ge=
t
it to actually LOAD correctly.  Any help would be great.

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