ANN: webrick-fcgi 0.1.0

[Aredridel]

I've been working this week on a webrick servlet compatible module using
FCGI. I prefer Apache as a general webserver, the process separation of
CGI and FastCGI over mod_ruby, and the webrick API -- so I combined
them.

I'd appreciate comments, suggestions, improvements, and certainly not
least, success stories.

The module is available at:

http://theinternetco.net/projects/ruby/webrick-fcgi-0.1.0.tar.gz

With regards,
Ari

 

[Ara.T.Howard]

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:12:58 +0900
From: Aredridel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
Subject: ANN: webrick-fcgi 0.1.0

I've been working this week on a webrick servlet compatible module using
FCGI. I prefer Apache as a general webserver, the process separation of
CGI and FastCGI over mod_ruby, and the webrick API -- so I combined
them.

I'd appreciate comments, suggestions, improvements, and certainly not
least, success stories.

The module is available at:

http://theinternetco.net/projects/ruby/webrick-fcgi-0.1.0.tar.gz

With regards,
Ari

very cool!

i'll check it out.

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[MikkelFJ]

I've been working this week on a webrick servlet compatible module using
FCGI. I prefer Apache as a general webserver, the process separation of
CGI and FastCGI over mod_ruby, and the webrick API -- so I combined
them.

I'd appreciate comments, suggestions, improvements, and certainly not
least, success stories.

I think FastCGI is the way to go.

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/52598

Mikkel

 

[Aredridel]

I think FastCGI is the way to go.

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/52598

Absolutely. In my testing, it has been the most stable and flexible for
my uses: I'm not writing a single script system, so mod_ruby's
namespacing issues are painful. I don't want scripts owned by different
users, in different parts of the system to clash.

Privilege separation is important -- FCGI allows scripts to run under
different userids than the webserver. That's a plus.

No need for separate apache instances for different configurations.

Now, on top of that, WEBrick is a standard part of the distribution now,
so I imagine many interesting things will be released as servlets only
-- compatibility with that is a must, but I'm stuck with Apache for
other parts of my site, and mod_proxy seems a brittle solution.

All this led me to create the module, so I can use webrick servlets
under fastcgi.

Ari