From: Markus Fischer <markus@...>
Date: 2010-09-11T00:02:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Where to start for developing a service REST API?

Hi Brian,

On 10.09.2010 09:29, Brian Candler wrote:
> Look at Sinatra. You'll be amazed what you can build with three lines of
> code :-) The framework itself is basically one source file and easy to
> understand in its entirety.

You're right, I'm definitely amazed. It's incredible how easy things can 
work.

> Look at Phusion Passenger, which will let you run any Rack-based app
> (including Rails and Sinatra apps) within Apache, automatically taking
> care of starting and stopping app processes as required.
>
> It starts processes by first making a template process and then forking
> it whenever a new child is required. If you combine it with Ruby
> Enterprise Edition (Ruby with copy-on-write-friendly garbage collector)
> then you'll also get a lot more memory sharing between these processes.

Thanks for the future pointers, I'll see how far I can really get with 
the Sinatra app, this looks really very well suited.

thanks,
- Markus