Eventmachine talk - Jan 2008 - Thin 0.5.1 LOLCAT released

Hey all,

Version 0.5.1 (codename LOLCAT) of the fastest Ruby server is out!

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
Which makes it, with all humility, the most secure, stable, fast and extensible
Ruby web server
bundled in an easy to use gem for your own pleasure.

== What''s new?

Even though Thin has been made public only 4 days ago, lots of things have
happened since:
 * Ruby 1.9 compatibility
 * Better Rails adapter
 * Thin support included in Ramaze and Vintage frameworks (Thin can also run
Rails, Camping, Merb and more)
 * Some bug fixes in header parsing

And some amazing numbers:

[~/projects/thin] ruby benchmark/simple.rb
server     request   concurrency   req/s     failures
====================================================WEBrick    1000      1      
389.31    0
Mongrel    1000      1             1495.70   0
EMongrel   1000      1             2070.35   0
Thin       1000      1             2219.45   0
WEBrick    1000      10            366.16    0
Mongrel    1000      10            1501.02   0
EMongrel   1000      10            2562.43   0
Thin       1000      10            3129.64   0
WEBrick    1000      100           ERROR
Mongrel    1000      100           1500.82   0
EMongrel   1000      100           3031.29   0
Thin       1000      100           3372.49   0

[~/projects/thin] ruby19 benchmark/simple.rb
server     request   concurrency   req/s     failures
====================================================WEBrick    1000      1      
506.33    0
Mongrel    1000      1             1768.31   0
Thin       1000      1             2528.11   0
WEBrick    1000      10            461.66    0
Mongrel    1000      10            1541.35   0
Thin       1000      10            4003.19   0
WEBrick    1000      100           ERROR
Mongrel    1000      100           1313.19   0
Thin       1000      100           4154.67   0

== Get it!

 sudo gem install thin

(Might take some time for the gem mirrors to be updated, try adding
--source http://code.macournoyer.com to the command if it doesn''t work)

== Contribute

Thin is driven by an active community of passionate coders and benchmarkers.
Please join us, contribute
or share some ideas in Thin Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/thin-ruby/topics

Also on IRC: #thin on freenode

Thanks to all the people who contributed to Thin, EventMachine, Rack and
Mongrel.

Marc-Andre Cournoyer
http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/