Unicorn
Unofficial Unicorn Mirror. (by defunkt)
Thin
A very fast & simple Ruby web server (by macournoyer)
| Unicorn | Thin | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | |
| 1,416 | 2,271 | |
| 0.1% | -0.0% | |
| 5.0 | 6.3 | |
| 4 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Ruby License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Unicorn
Posts with mentions or reviews of Unicorn.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-18.
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Adventures in Garbage Collection: Improving GC Performance in our Massive Monolith (2023)
It's extremely similar to the original OOBGC implementation for Unicorn: https://github.com/defunkt/unicorn/blob/master/lib/unicorn/oob_gc.rb
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What exactly is a pre-fork web server model?
I want to know what exactly it means when a web server describes itself as a pre-fork web server. I have a few examples such as unicorn for ruby and gunicorn for python.
- We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session handling
Thin
Posts with mentions or reviews of Thin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-07.
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How to Use Sinatra to Build a Ruby Application
This one file contains everything needed for this simplified app to run. Run it with ruby main.rb, which should spin up an instance of the Thin web server (the default web server that comes with Sinatra). Visit localhost:4567 and you'll see the JSON response.
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Newb here: have you written your own web server? Seeking advice
The other major thing you'll run into is performance. WEBrick's HTTP parsing code may look hairy but it is fast. Mongrel was the first Ruby HTTP server to implement it's HTTP parser in C using Ragel, which Thin, Unicorn, and Puma all copied; although there's a bug in the original Mongrel HTTP parser where it does not combine the values duplicate HTTP headers (yes, HTTP Header names can actually be repeated).
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The Definitive Guide to Rack for Ruby and Rails Developers
Now let's run our application using a different server. We'll use Thin, a small, simple, and fast web server.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Unicorn and Thin you can also consider the following projects:
Puma - A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism
Rack - A modular Ruby web server interface.
Phusion Passenger - A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js
Iodine - iodine - HTTP / WebSockets Server for Ruby with Pub/Sub support
Goliath - Goliath is a non-blocking Ruby web server framework