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Web Servers

Expose HTTP-based services from Ruby. Usually these are used with a rack-based Ruby web framework.
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Web apps on Rails. Simple, battle-tested conventions for building and testing MVC web applications. Works with any Rack-compatible server.
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Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web servers, web frameworks, and software in between (the so-called middleware) into a single...
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Protect against typical web attacks, works with all Rack apps, including Rails
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No release in over a year
Rack::Test is a small, simple testing API for Rack apps. It can be used on its own or as a reusable starting point for Web frameworks and testing libraries to build on.
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Sprockets is a Rack-based asset packaging system that concatenates and serves JavaScript, CoffeeScript, CSS, Sass, and SCSS.
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Capybara is an integration testing tool for rack based web applications. It simulates how a user would interact with a website
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Middleware that will make Rack-based apps CORS compatible. Fork the project here: https://github.com/cyu/rack-cors
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Low commit activity in last 3 years
An authentication library compatible with all Rack-based frameworks
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Capybara aims to simplify the process of integration testing Rack applications, such as Rails, Sinatra or Merb. It is inspired by and aims to replace Webrat as a DSL for interacting with a webapplication. It is agnostic about the driver running your tests and currently comes bundled with rack-tes...
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No release in over 3 years
Capybara aims to simplify the process of integration testing Rack applications, such as Rails, Sinatra or Merb. It is inspired by and aims to replace Webrat as a DSL for interacting with a webapplication. It is agnostic about the driver running your tests and currently comes bundled with rack-tes...
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A long-lived project that still receives updates
A generalized Rack framework for multiple-provider authentication.
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A rack middleware for throttling and blocking abusive requests
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raindrops is a real-time stats toolkit to show statistics for Rack HTTP servers. It is designed for preforking servers such as unicorn, but should support any Rack HTTP server on platforms supporting POSIX shared memory. It may also be used as a generic scoreboard for sharing atomic counters ac...
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Redis Store for Rack applications
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There's a lot of open issues
A long-lived project that still receives updates
A Rack app that provides request/response rewriting proxy capabilities with streaming.
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A long-lived project that still receives updates
Object geocoding (by street or IP address), reverse geocoding (coordinates to street address), distance queries for ActiveRecord and Mongoid, result caching, and more. Designed for Rails but works with Sinatra and other Rack frameworks too.
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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 a...
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