From: Steven Stanfield <sls@...>
Date: 2002-08-29T17:05:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Based App Server

I have posted a newer version of ocelot.  It can be found at
http://www.ocelot.scarecrowtech.com/.

It is substantially the same as what you will get from Brad's site but I
have cleaned up a few things that might be pain for a new user (handles
missing '/' for webapps better, will log to stdout if it is open instead
of just to the log file, and will return an error 404 in some cases that
caused it to just drop the connection before).  The example webapps are
a bit of a mess right now, but they should be able to demonstrate
things.  I plan to clean things up some more over the next couple of
days (and add a real website to support it).

Not sure how it compares to WEBrick since I have never used it.

Ocelot started out to be a clone of a Java Servlet container but it's
API has changed a lot since then (mostly thanks to the influence of Brad
Cox who is using it with his ILE project-
http://www.virtualschool.edu/ile/index.html).

It also supports RSP pages (basically JSP pages that use Ruby instead of
Java), including the Java method of "compiling" the RSP page to a Ruby
class (servlet) and using that.  Also it does not require anything other
than Ruby to run.  I want to keep it small and simple (at least the core
package) so it should be easy to check out.

Steven Stanfield

On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 13:35, Nat Pryce wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 16:50, Edward Wilson wrote:
> > Steven Stanfield is working on `Ocelot', a simular architecture to Tomcat.
> 
> Do you have a URL for Ocelot?
> 
> How will it differ from WEBrick?
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Nat.
> 
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> Dr. Nathaniel Pryce, Technical Director, B13media Ltd.
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