Projects

Mongrel

A small fast HTTP server written in (mostly) Ruby that can be used to host web frameworks directly with HTTP rather than FastCGI or SCGI.

Passenger (mod_rails for Apache)

Phusion Passenger — a.k.a. mod_rails — makes deployment of applications built on the revolutionary Ruby on Rails web framework a breeze. It follows the usual Ruby on Rails conventions, such as “Don’t-Repeat-Yourself”. Note that the Ohloh source analysis is incorrect. The statistics for ... [More] C++ and comment count are wrong because the Boost library is included. It is also not true that there's a single developer, because Passenger is commercially supported by Phusion. [Less]

Thin

Thin is a Ruby web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history: * the Mongrel parser, the root of Mongrel speed and security * Event Machine, a network I/O library with extremely high scalability, performance and stability * Rack, a minimal interface between webservers and Ruby frameworks

htty

htty is the HTTP TTY, a console application for interacting with web servers. It’s a fun way to explore web APIs and to learn the ins and outs of HTTP. Install by typing: gem install htty

Ronin

Ronin is a Ruby platform for exploit development and security research. Ronin allows for the rapid development and distribution of code, exploits or payloads over many common Source-Code-Management (SCM) systems.

Swiftcore Swiftiply

Swiftiply is a highly optimized clustering proxy for web applications (currently supports: Rails, Merb, IOWA, Ramaze, Camping, and Nitro, with the ability to support many more). It increases application performance in a few ways. First, it uses EventMachine for network traffic (eventmachine is an ... [More] event-based asynchronous network library which uses epoll on Linux for high network performance). Secondly, it reverses the way Proxies normally work by letting the nodes in the pool connect to Swiftiply with persistent TCP connections. This removes the delay of having to create a new TCP connection for every request, and makes it easier to maintain your cluster since nodes can be added and removed from the pool simply by starting new processes on a server. [Less]

Ebb

Ebb aims to be a small and fast web server specifically for hosting web frameworks like Rails, Merb, and in the future Django.

Trestle Generator for Rails

Trestle Generator is a drop-in replacement for the built-in Rails scaffold generator. It attempts to address two shortcomings: (a) State-changing HTTP GET vulnerabilities and (b) Overcomplexity in the public interface of generated Rails controllers. NOTE: This project is no longer in active ... [More] development. It has been superseded by the built-in scaffold_resource generator in Rails. [Less]