Category

Web Servers

Expose HTTP-based services from Ruby. Usually these are used with a rack-based Ruby web framework.

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Puma is a simple, fast, multi-threaded, and highly parallel HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby/Rack applications. Puma is intended for use in both development and production environments. It's great for highly parallel Ruby implementations such as JRuby and TruffleRuby as well as as providing process worker support to support CRuby well.
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WEBrick is an HTTP server toolkit that can be configured as an HTTPS server, a proxy server, and a virtual-host server.
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A small fast HTTP library and server that runs Rails, Camping, Nitro and Iowa apps.
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unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels. Slow clients should only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully buffering both the the request and response in between unicorn and slow clients.
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A modern web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js, optimized for performance, low memory usage and ease of use.
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Trinidad allows you to run Rails or Rack applications within an embedded Apache Tomcat container. Serves your requests with the elegance of a cat !
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A fast HTTP / Websocket Server with built-in Pub/Sub support (with or without Redis), static file support and many other features, optimized for Ruby MRI on Linux / BSD / macOS / Windows
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A Web Server
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Ruby-Mongrel2 is a complete Ruby connector for Mongrel2.
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Hoof is linux variant of pow. It's based on nss, eventmachine and unicorn
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A multi-process web-server written in Ruby 1.9.
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