From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2009-10-06T14:03:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rainbows! 0.1.1 - with Ruby 1.8 support!

Tony Arcieri <tony@medioh.com> wrote:
> I'm curious about using this for a Comet server... what do you think about
> the feasibility of that?  Comet-style "long polling" seems ideal for this
> sort of framework, where you have an asynchronous event source but
> synchronous clients.

Yup, that's exactly one of those use cases Rainbows! is designed to
support.  This would be a great time to test out the Rainbows!+Revactor
combo (and maybe fix my Revactor-using code :)

> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> 
> > Rainbows! Unicorn for slow apps and slow clients
> >
> > Rainbows! is a HTTP server for sleepy Rack applications.  It is based on
> > Unicorn, but designed to handle applications that expect long
> > request/response times and/or slow clients.  For Rack applications not
> > heavily bound by slow external network dependencies, consider Unicorn
> > instead as it simpler and easier to debug.
> >
> > * http://rainbows.rubyforge.org/
> > * rainbows-talk@rubyforge.org
> > * git://git.bogomips.org/rainbows.git
> >
> > Fixed Ruby 1.8 support (and all 1.9 systems without Revactor).
> > Process-wide timeout handling for the ThreadSpawn concurrency
> > model should now work properly.  Small cleanups everywhere.
> >
> > --