[Mongrel] [ANN] Ebb Web Server

[Ersin Er]

Good luck with your new server! I also suggest looking at Thin which
has been developed very recently and seems quite promising:

http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/

According to the benchmarks it's the fastest Ruby web server currently.

On Jan 14, 2008 6:43 PM, ry dahl <ry at tinyclouds.org> wrote:
> Hello Mongrel Users,
>
> I'm writing a web server called Ebb. It's written in C, makes use of
> the Mongrel HTTP parser, and uses libev its event loop. The goal is to
> be small, fast, and language independent server that can host web
> frameworks. I have written a small Ruby binding which provides a Rack
> handler - this will allow Ebb to host Rails, Merb, and other Ruby
> frameworks. In the future I will write a Python WSGI binding.
>
> The design is similar to the evented Mongrel web server. Connections
> are processed as follows:
>
> 1. libev loops and waits for incoming connections.
> 2. When Ebb can read from a client socket, it passes the buffer into the
>    mongrel state machine which parses the headers into name value pairs.
> 3. Ebb starts a new thread and passes the request information and peer socket
>    to a user supplied callback. The thread lasts only for the length of that
>    callback.
> 4. The included Ruby binding, supplying this callback transforms the request
>    into a Rack compatible "env" variable and passes it on a Rack adapter.
>
> The code measures in at less than 1000 lines of C code.
>
> There is much work to do; it is not ready for use. I am soliciting
> help from the community for testing and development. You may browse
> the git repository at http://repo.or.cz/w/ebb.git or check out the
> code with this command:
> git clone git://repo.or.cz/ebb.git
> I release Ebb under the MIT license.
> It is very fun to program Ebb so I suggest you do too :)
>
>
> Ry Dahl
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Ersin Er