On Jan 14, 2008 11:43 AM, ry dahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > Ry,
Awesome, great idea! I will definitely be checking this out hopefully this weekend ~Wayne
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