From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-09-22T14:44:32+09:00
Subject: Re: A standard like WSGI for Ruby?

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Devin Mullins wrote:

> Well, part of that is mindshare. Consider that the Nitro, IOWA authors wrote 
> the Mongrel adapters themselves (for the most part). In this case you could 
> call the Mongrel API the Ruby version of WSGI.

At the end of the day, the IOWA/Mongrel integration is a trivial thing, 
and something like WSGI could hardly make it easier than it already is 
without imposing design decisions on me.

Here it is:

   def process(req, res)
     Thread.current[:worker] = true
     unless handle_file(req, res)
       request = Iowa::Request::Mongrel.new(req)
       response = Iowa.handleConnection request
       ::Iowa::InlineClient.new(request,response).print(res)
     end
   end

That's the core of it.  Not hard.  IOWA already has an established 
precedent regarding what a request object looks like, so with something 
like WSGI, I'd either have to realign the request object expectation to 
whatever it provided, or I'd have to write a simple Iowa::Request::WSGI 
just like the Iowa::Request::Mongrel to take the request and apply it to 
the shape the application expects.  And it's really no big deal.

Maybe I'm failing to understand what WSGI really is because right now I 
don't see how it would help me.


Kirk Haines