From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2007-08-24T23:11:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Advice on bulding a web service

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On 8/24/07, Doug Livesey <biot023@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hallo.
> I need to build a web server (it'll be RESTful & everything), but am not
> sure about the best way to proceed.
> It will be a single instance app, that needs to strictly control
> concurrency, ie only one instance of an object can be manipulated at
> once.
> The built-in web service support of a full-fledged Rails app is not what
> I'm after.
> Basically, I want to be able to set the service going, then have other
> apps calling it (I'll probably use JSON) for data. At first, setting it
> off in a command prompt will do (sadly, I work in Windows).
> What I'm after, really, is advice on the best libraries to use, and
> maybe pointers to tutorials that achieve the sort of thing that I'm
> after.
> Thanks in advance,
>    Doug.
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

Sounds like you might be after a messaging server rather an HTTP server
(although there's nothing conceptually wrong with using HTTP for a job like
this). Look at stompserver.

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