From: Dane Jensen <careo@...>
Date: 2008-01-27T04:19:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Thin 0.6.1 Cheesecake release



Sent from my iPod Touch


On Jan 26, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Marc-André Cournoyer  
<macournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Version 0.6.1 (codename Cheesecake) of the fastest Ruby server is out!
> http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/
>
> == What's new?
>
> Lots and lots of new features: config file support, uses less  
> memory, speed tweaks,
> and UNIX domain socket connection support!
>
> More info:
> http://macournoyer.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/get-intimate-with-your-load-balancer-tonight/
>
> Changelog from 0.5.4:
> * Add support for connection through UNIX domain socket.
>  Use the --socket (-S) option w/ the thin script to configure the  
> socket filename.
>  Nginx support binding to a UNIX socket like this:
>
>    upstream  backend {
>      server   unix:/tmp/thin.0.sock;
>      server   unix:/tmp/thin.1.sock;
>      server   unix:/tmp/thin.2.sock;
>    }
>
>  Start your servers like this:
>
>    thin start -s3 -S/tmp/thin.sock
>
> * Remove Server#listen! method. Use Server#start instead.
> * Server can now yield a Rack::Builder to allow building an app in  
> one call:
>
>    Server.start '0.0.0.0', 3000 do
>      use Rack::CommonLogger
>      use Rack::ShowExceptions
>      map "/lobster" do
>        use Rack::Lint
>        run Rack::Lobster.new
>      end
>    end
>
> * Add a very basic stats page through Stats adapter, load w/ --stats  
> and browse to /stats.
> * Add --trace (-V) option to trace request/response and get  
> backtrace w/out all Ruby debug stuff.
> * Add --config (-C) option to load options from a config file in  
> thin script [Matt Todd].
> * Alter response headers to output directly to a string.
> * Improve specs stability.
> * Move request body to a Tempfile if too big (> 112 MB)
> * Remove useless check for max header size in Request (already done  
> in the parser)
>
> == Get it!
>
> sudo gem install thin
>
> Might take some time for the gem mirrors to be updated, try adding
> --source http://code.macournoyer.com to the command if it doesn't work
>
> If you installed a previous alpha version (if you have 0.6.1 already  
> installed)
> uninstall it before: sudo gem uninstall thin
>
> WARNING:
> Thin is still alpha software, if you use it on your server you  
> understand the
> risks that are involved.
>
> == Contribute
>
> If you're using Thin, let me know and I'll put your site on http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/users/
>
> Thin is driven by an active community of passionate coders and  
> benchmarkers. Please join us, contribute
> or share some ideas in Thin Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/thin-ruby/topics
>
> Also on IRC: #thin on freenode
>
> Thanks to all the people who contributed to Thin, EventMachine, Rack  
> and Mongrel.
>
> Marc-Andre Cournoyer
> http://macournoyer.com/
>
>