[ruby-talk:02875] Re: simple httpd for local use

On Thu, 18 May 2000  09:10:28 +0200, Aleksi Niemelwrote:
> > I personally use it for access to full-text indexed linux 
> > docs/howto's,
> > a personal WikiWikiWeb and cvsweb.
> 
> I'm not comfortable to talk about work in progress (in very early phases
> even), but I'm a little bit interested in Wiki-architecture. So I'm trying
> to create my own version for it (in Ruby, goes without saying :).
> 
> I'm definitely interested in your httpd since Wiki will rely on it, but as
> said I've no use for that yet. Does it run on Win (tty made me wonder...)? 

I have no experience with Ruby on win, so I'll leave this to someone
more qualified.

> OTOH, your httpd is for local use only, any hope for prime time?

Some scalability issues would have to be met:
- Spawning a thread for each request, but I'm weary of that because of
  the remarks matz makes in the manual about mixing fork/thread.
- All caching is currently in the hands of the OS (which I think is ok)
- Ruby CGI scripts {sh,c}ould be executed in-line

The current code would probably be ok for a low-traffic site; noting
that a security review of the code would need to be done.

> Could you kindly provide some background information how you're using Wiki,
> to which kind of documents, how often, is it under collaborative use
> ("personal Wiki", hmm) and the most important, what is the functionality
> you'd like to have more, work differently or so. So I'd like to hear about
> all kind of development ideas you have.

I've fetched the perl wiki from c2.com, and use it as is for personal
purposes: notes, phonenumbers, braindumps, ideas, code etc. A digital
replacement for bits of paper and yellow notes everywhere :)

I'd be very interested in a Ruby port of wiki, in fact I've been
planning to write such a beast myself (httpd got in the way). Note that
wiki is not GPL'ed, though!

Michel