From: Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@...>
Date: 2006-02-03T23:41:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Mongrel HTTP Library 0.2.2 (Serving Directories)

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On 2/3/06, Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@gmail.com> wrote:
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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
> get it to actually LOAD correctly.  Any help would be great.
>
>

Sorry for the double post, but as it turns out I get an Identical error on
my Debian box as well, so something in the install seems to be a bit
fubar'd.

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