http_tools
Pure Ruby HTTP parser and friends (by matsadler)
mongrel
Mongrel on git (by mongrel)
| http_tools | mongrel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 11 | 173 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 10.0 | |
| about 11 years ago | over 14 years ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
http_tools
Posts with mentions or reviews of http_tools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-18.
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Newb here: have you written your own web server? Seeking advice
And the HTTP parser I wrote for it: https://github.com/matsadler/http_tools
mongrel
Posts with mentions or reviews of mongrel.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-18.
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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).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing http_tools and mongrel you can also consider the following projects:
ruby_view_server
Thin - A very fast & simple Ruby web server
EventMachine - EventMachine: fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs
Rack - A modular Ruby web server interface.
Puma - A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism
webrick - HTTP server toolkit
net-http-server - A pure Ruby HTTP Server.
Tokamak - SwiftUI-compatible framework for building browser apps with WebAssembly and native apps for other platforms
bindata - BinData - Reading and Writing Binary Data in Ruby