gmarik / gorack

Gorack a Go backed frontend webserver for Ruby's Rack apps

Gorack

gorack is a Go backed frontend webserver for Ruby's Rack applications

Current state

1. alpha quality
2. Gem file ships with only Darwin amd64 prebuilt binary. Why? See 1.

Why

An experiment; inspired by node's nack

How To

Building from sources

0. export GORACKPATH=$GOPATH/src/github.com/gmarik
1. mkdir -p $GORACKPATH
2. git clone http://github.com/gmarik/gorack $GORACKPATH
3. cd $GORACKPATH
4. go run main/gorack-server.go -config ./ruby/test/echo.ru
5. open http://localhost:3000

Building Gemfile

0. cd $GORACKPATH
1. make gemfile # builds to ./build/ruby/gorack-x.x.x.gem

Testing

0. cd $GORACKPATH
1. go test -v .
2. go test -v -bench=. . # with benchmarking

Get Up And Running

NOTE: gem provides only for x86_64 OSX binary at the moment. See instructions how to build from source

1. gem install gorack
2. gorack -config ./path/to/config.ru

ie:

1. gorack -config=$(dirname $(gem which gorack))/../test/echo.ru
2. open http://localhost:3000

TODO

• fix weird zombie leaking
• improve error handling: broken IPC results in malfunction of the parent ruby process
• improve performance