Amber Kit

A glitter network toolkit

Amber is a easy using network tool for web apps.

Install

$ gem install amber-kit

Run It

In terminal:

$ amber

Amber server binds 3001 port as default, just open your browser and visit http://localhost:3001.

It is a empty server so that you can see nothing but 404 page.

Simple start

Create file app.rb:

require "amber"
app = Amber.new do |amber|
  amber.route.map('/', Amber::Http::Request::GET) do
    "<html>Hello Amber!</html>"
  end
end
app.run

Then run:

$ amber app.rb

Open your browser and visit http://localhost:3001/ you will see the page "Hello Amber!".

Description

Web can use amber in such:

Web crawler
Web middle layer
Proxy server
Web service
Create your own site

Web Crawler

Amber has Switch tool for fetch data.

You can almost fetch anything from any website.

Web middle layer

If you are maintain a large website and web service. You may try to use Amber for manage routines between any URL.

Clean up dirty data and holds a tidy environment.

Proxy server

You can forward a page to another page, or a web service to another web service

Web service

Amber is RESTFul design so you can easy binding route for your web service development.

Create your own site

Amber is basically support MVC and you an design your own View which can be JSON / HTML, and Controllers should compact them and return as View directly.

Also, you can return an String and Amber will regard it as a pure HTML page.

DEMO

Here is a little sample:

http://pingz.org.cn/amber/demo.zip

Contact

Email: jakit_liang@outlook.com

Twitter: @jakit_jie

Github: jakitto