| mongrel | webrick | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | |
| 173 | 253 | |
| - | 0.4% | |
| 10.0 | 5.8 | |
| over 14 years ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" 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.
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).
webrick
Posts with mentions or reviews of webrick.
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
WEBrick. Written entirely in Ruby, this is where you should start your examination, but not where it should end. WEBrick is easy to understand, because it is all Ruby, but it is not suitable for hosting websites. It is not robust or performant enough.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mongrel and webrick you can also consider the following projects:
Thin - A very fast & simple Ruby web server
EventMachine - EventMachine: fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs
Puma - A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism
ruby_view_server
Rack - A modular Ruby web server interface.
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