Eventmachine talk - Jan 2008 - Thin 0.6.1 Cheesecake release

Hey all,

Version 0.6.1 (codename Cheesecake) of the fastest Ruby server is out!
http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/

== What''s new?

Lots and lots of new features: config file support, uses less memory,
speed tweaks,
and UNIX domain socket connection support!

More info:
http://macournoyer.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/get-intimate-with-your-load-balancer-tonight/

Changelog from 0.5.4:
* Add support for connection through UNIX domain socket.
   Use the --socket (-S) option w/ the thin script to configure the
socket filename.
   Nginx support binding to a UNIX socket like this:

     upstream  backend {
       server   unix:/tmp/thin.0.sock;
       server   unix:/tmp/thin.1.sock;
       server   unix:/tmp/thin.2.sock;
     }

   Start your servers like this:

     thin start -s3 -S/tmp/thin.sock

* Remove Server#listen! method. Use Server#start instead.
* Server can now yield a Rack::Builder to allow building an app in one
call:

     Server.start ''0.0.0.0'', 3000 do
       use Rack::CommonLogger
       use Rack::ShowExceptions
       map "/lobster" do
         use Rack::Lint
         run Rack::Lobster.new
       end
     end

* Add a very basic stats page through Stats adapter, load w/ --stats
and browse to /stats.
* Add --trace (-V) option to trace request/response and get backtrace
w/out all Ruby debug stuff.
* Add --config (-C) option to load options from a config file in thin
script [Matt Todd].
* Alter response headers to output directly to a string.
* Improve specs stability.
* Move request body to a Tempfile if too big (> 112 MB)
* Remove useless check for max header size in Request (already done in
the parser)

== 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

If you installed a previous alpha version (if you have 0.6.1 already
installed)
uninstall it before: sudo gem uninstall thin

WARNING:
Thin is still alpha software, if you use it on your server you
understand the
risks that are involved.

== Contribute

If you''re using Thin, let me know and I''ll put your site on
http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/users/

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://macournoyer.com/