Rails - Feb 2006 - Mongrel 0.3.5 -- Rails/CGI Actually Works

This release of Mongrel features a CGIWrapper that actually works.  The
previous code was complete garbage so this one should fix the problems with
sessions, cookies, and content-types people reported previously.

There is also now a correctly built Win32 gem created by Luis Lavena.  Luis
joined the Mongrel project and will be working on the Win32 specific gear
needed.  His first thing is going to be a Mongrel service so you can
start/stop Mongrel like other web servers on Win32.

Grab the goods at http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/


== What Is Mongrel

Mongrel is a fast HTTP library and server for Ruby that is intended for
hosting Ruby web applications of any kind using plain HTTP rather than
FastCGI or SCGI. It is framework agnostic and already supports Ruby On
Rails, Og+Nitro, and Camping frameworks.


== Changes for 0.3.5

* More correct CGIWrapper that should work with all CGI parameters and any
additional ones you set as well as properly converting cookies.
* Content-types and sessions should be fixed now.
* Fix to DirHandler that caused it to not list directories if told to.

Win32 people will still have problems with CTRL-C not stopping mongrel, but
Luis is tracking that down as part of his win32 service work.


== Getting Mongrel

You can get Mongrel via RubyGems just make sure you pick the win32 gem if
you are on that platform.  You can use the regular gem if you have your own
compiler.

For those not familiar with RubyGems refer to the Mongrel site for help
(it''s right on the front page).


== Toward 0.4

This release is getting closer to complete Ruby on Rails support.  It should
work well, but file upload/send will probably function very weirdly if at
all.

The next release will focus on getting the win32 service working and
enabling all the little things like file upload/send, built-in page caching
support, and other goodies.  People running Rails should shoot me feature
requests along these lines.


Zed A. Shaw
http://www.zedshaw.com/

On Feb 18, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Zed Shaw wrote:
> This release of Mongrel features a CGIWrapper that actually works.   
> The
> previous code was complete garbage so this one should fix the  
> problems with
> sessions, cookies, and content-types people reported previously.
:-)

Hey, this is looking really great!

I noticed when I do:

   sudo gem install mongrel

it now prompts me for version.

It seems to think there are Win32 and Ruby versions.

Should it be something like Win32 and *nix. It''s all
Ruby, right? :-)

-- 
-- Tom Mornini

On 2/18/06, Tom Mornini <tmornini@infomania.com>
wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Zed Shaw wrote:
>
> > This release of Mongrel features a CGIWrapper that actually works.
> > The
> > previous code was complete garbage so this one should fix the
> > problems with
> > sessions, cookies, and content-types people reported previously.
>
> :-)
>
> Hey, this is looking really great!
>
> I noticed when I do:
>
>    sudo gem install mongrel
>
> it now prompts me for version.
>
> It seems to think there are Win32 and Ruby versions.
>
> Should it be something like Win32 and *nix. It''s all
> Ruby, right? :-)
>
In RubyGems lingo, non-platform-specific gems have ''RUBY'' as
the
platform, and binary gems have platform names like ''WIN32''.
Seems reasonable, but not super-clear when you see them together in a
menu like that.

On Feb 18, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
> On 2/18/06, Tom Mornini <tmornini@infomania.com> wrote:
>
>> It seems to think there are Win32 and Ruby versions.
>>
>> Should it be something like Win32 and *nix. It''s all
>> Ruby, right? :-)
>
> In RubyGems lingo, non-platform-specific gems have ''RUBY''
as the
> platform, and binary gems have platform names like
''WIN32''.
> Seems reasonable, but not super-clear when you see them together in a
> menu like that.
Thanks, Wilson.

-- 
-- Tom Mornini