spider-gazelle / spider-gazelle

A Rails esque web framework with a focus on speed and extensibility for crystal lang

Spider-Gazelle Application Template

Clone this repository to start building your own spider-gazelle based application. This is a template and as such, Do What the Fuck You Want To

Documentation

Detailed documentation and guides available: https://spider-gazelle.net/

• Action Controller base class for building Controllers
• Active Model base class for building ORMs
• Habitat configuration and settings for Crystal projects
• router.cr base request handling
• Radix Radix Tree implementation for request routing
• HTTP::Server built-in Crystal Lang HTTP server
  • Request
  • Response
  • Cookies
  • Headers
  • Params etc

Spider-Gazelle builds on the amazing performance of router.cr here.:rocket:

Testing

crystal spec

• to run in development mode crystal ./src/app.cr

Compiling

crystal build ./src/app.cr

Deploying

Once compiled you are left with a binary ./app

• for help ./app --help
• viewing routes ./app --routes
• run on a different port or host ./app -b 0.0.0.0 -p 80