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I like the cookie sessions that Rails edge has - they make sense, they''re fast, easy. For those that don''t know: the default session mechanism is to give developers a Hash called session. To store this object between requests it Marshals the session object and sends the object itself (now as a bitstream) back to clients to store in their cookie file. To prevent users from

Trunk Issue: Because of the use of ''autoload'', template handlers other than Erubis are not loaded automatically (Haml, XMLBuilder). Either this should be fixed, or the documentation should be updated to instruct people how to use non-Erb template engines. Apparently the solution is to do something like this in merb_init.rb: ::Merb::AbstractController.register_engine

SqueezeBox is a simple file system based routing framework for erubis templates. It aims for a couple of niceties as well: Instead of putting your logic inside your template, like you would with PHP, SqueezeBox recognizes a separate logic file to be called before it loads the template. This allows you room to load ActiveRecord models or do calculations. These logic files return to the webserver

Hello Mongrel Users, I''m writing a web server called Ebb. It''s written in C, makes use of the Mongrel HTTP parser, and uses libev its event loop. The goal is to be small, fast, and language independent server that can host web frameworks. I have written a small Ruby binding which provides a Rack handler - this will allow Ebb to host Rails, Merb, and other Ruby frameworks. In the

Ez (or someone) asked on #merb tonight whether respond_to was the right API for what it does. After some discussion and pasties, I offer the following proposed API for content negotiation and response format selection: First, what does respond_to do right now? I see at as performing 3 distinct operations: 1. parse params[:format] and the accepts header to find out what format the

hi, I rewrote escape, unescape, and query_parse in a C extension. http://s3.amazonaws.com/four.livejournal/20070922/http_helpers.tar.bz2 Here are some sample benchmarks (the benchmark script is included in the package) user system total real escape: Single long Mongrel: 1.680000 0.020000 1.700000 ( 1.837793) HttpHlp: 0.030000 0.010000 0.040000 ( 0.036590)

It seems that Merb is sending static files with Mongrel::DirHandler. (mongrel_handler.rb:52) if get_or_head and @files.can_serve(path_info) # File exists as-is so serve it up MERB_LOGGER.info("Serving static file: #{path_info}") @files.process(request,response) I haven''t done benchmarks and I''ve hardly glanced at DirHandler''s code but the

hello list! I like merb a lot, it frees me from dropping to mongrel every time i want to stream something. i have an action which will stream a list of JSON objects (separated by semicolons). unfortunately because of Mongrel''s write-only header hash, once a Content-Length header has been written, I can never again tell it to not send such a thing - and streaming doesn''t work if

Hello guys. I missed a lot of the development before 0.4 got out (btw, excellent work!). I checkout last night the merb-trunk code and run the specs, found that everything passes with 1 pending, but no errors or failures about missing ruby2ruby. There is a ticket (#274)[1] that discuss this, but I remember we discussed this back in September about depending on RubyInline... Also, the merb gem

Since Merb has the lovely property of rendering the output of an action, using ruby-level exceptions to render error pages in Merb could be a cute way to approach error handling. Suppose one has an action for editing a product which you would like to restrict to administrators: def edit raise AdminAccessReqired unless session[:user] and session[:user].admin? @product =

I have a magical proposal for the anti-magic web framework. Controller methods do not use arguments and yet expect arguments. This is handled through this params hash because we don''t know in advance what parameters a client could pass to Merb. But in almost every instance, it is too much to know all the query parameters - one doesn''t care if the user threw in an extraneous

Hi, How about creating another mailing list to let people vent themselves? It would make it easier for everyone, since technical/troubleshooting issues and opinions target different people. This messages is a test as well. I couldn't write to the list through gmane so I corrected the address with gmane admin. Hope this works. Regards,

I''m modifying techno weenie''s progress bar plug-in. Currently it works by making the browser poll the server, via AJAX, for updates on amount received. My plug-in provides a handler which will stream updates on the amount received, thus only one request needs to be made. Also, the progress can be updated at faster rates since the client doesn''t need to poll. This should

I''m working on new methods of doing Ajax calls through streaming responses. I''ve created a little javascript library (which depends on prototype.js) that can interpret a stream of JSON objects separated by semicolons. As an application of this, this Mongrel plug-in streams upload status when given a qualified upload_id. It looks like this:

Hey so, People are asking about Mongrel Ruby 1.9 compatibility. Isn''t the point of 1.9 for library developers to have time to get ready for 2.0? It''s not like 1.9 is a production release. Evan -- Evan Weaver Cloudburst, LLC

This class provides a CookieJar object for Mongrels. Just initialize with response and request objects and then treat like a hash. Does not depend on cgi.rb ry -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: cookies_for_mongrels.rb Type: text/x-ruby-script Size: 4776 bytes Desc: not available Url :

I had redirects working just the other day... before I upgraded to the latest release. Can somebody please chime in as to why this simple redirect is throwing an error? Controller: ----------------------- def do redirect "http://www.ebay.com" end Error Output: ------------------------- Internal server error 500 uninitialized constant Merb::ControllerMixin::MovedTemporarily in

merb_dispatcher.rb:28 controller = klass.build(request.body, request.params, route, response) Why not just use a typical constructor? merb_dispatcher.rb:35 raise Merb::HTTPMethodNotAllowed.new(method, allowed) Why not check for this after the action has been dispatched to the controller? controller_mixin.rb:149 def query_parse(qs, d = ''&;'') Why not offload query parsing

I am going to be building a project and have been considering giving a go at merb for it. I don''t necessarily need a speed increase and rails would certainly serve my needs well. However, it just looks so clean, I have to try it out. I also don''t really use (know) all the extra rails stuff much, so I really just want activerecord and an MVC pattern. Perfect! So, one of my

I''m just playing with a recent Merb trunk (-r590). All the specs pass, apart from 2 pending. Now, the README says: "if you return a Proc object from your action, it will be called and the return value sent to the client." However this doesn''t seem to work with the following test controller: class Hello < Application def world res = "Hello world from