Tracks¶ ↑

Tiny/Threaded Rack Server.

Tracks is a bare-bones HTTP server that talks Rack and uses a thread per connection model of concurrency, written entirely in Ruby.

• bare-bones: by doing only what it must, Tracks is kept small and fast

• Rack based: Tracks natively uses the Rack api you already know, add missing features with Rack middleware

• threaded: use Tracks for those problems where threads are the solution

• pure Ruby: install and run anywhere Ruby is available, without need for a C compiler. Debug the whole stack. Runs great on Ruby 1.8, 1.9, JRuby, Rubinius, and MacRuby

• handles concurrent requests

• stream requests in and responses out

• keep-alive support

• on 100-continue automatically sends continue response when #read is called on rack.input

• graceful shutdown

• easily extensible, see examples

gem install tracks

Add require 'tracks' to your config.ru, like so:

require 'tracks'
use Rack::ContentLength

run(Proc.new do |env|
  [200, {"Content-Type" => "text/plain"}, ["Hello world!\n"]]
end)

and start it up with rackup -stracks

you can also use the ‘magic comment’ #\ --server tracks in your config.ru to default to Tracks.

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2011, 2012 Matthew Sadler

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