= Ruby-Mongrel2

* http://deveiate.org/projects/Ruby-Mongrel2/

== Description

A complete Ruby connector for Mongrel2[http://mongrel2.org/].

This library includes configuration-database ORM classes, a Ruby
implementation of the 'm2sh' tool, a configuration DSL for generating config
databases in pure Ruby, a Control port interface object, and handler classes 
for creating applications or higher-level frameworks.

It differs from the original Mongrel2 Ruby library (m2r), and the
mongrel2-rack library in several ways:

* It uses the C extension for 0MQ (zmq) instead of the FFI one. If you
  strongly prefer the FFI library, both of the other Mongrel2 libraries use
  it, so you'll want to stick to one of them.

* It doesn't come with a Rack handler, or Rails examples, or anything fancy. I
  intend to build my own webby framework bits around Mongrel2, and I thought
  maybe someone else might want to as well. If you don't, well again, there
  are two other libraries for you.

* It includes configuration stuff. I want to make tools that use the Mongrel2
  config database, so I wrote config classes. Sequel::Model made it
  stupid-easy. There's also a DSL for generating a config database, too,
  mostly because I found it an interesting exercise, and I like the way it
  looks.


== Installation

    gem install mongrel2


This library uses Jeremy Hinegardner's 'amalgalite' library for the config ORM classes, but it will also fall back to using the sqlite3 library instead:

    # Loading the sqlite3 library explicitly
    $ rspec -rsqlite3 -cfp spec
    >>> Using SQLite3 1.3.4 for DB access.
    .....[...]

    Finished in 5.53 seconds
    102 examples, 0 failures

    # No -rsqlite3 means amalgalite loads first.
    $ rspec -cfp spec
    >>> Using Amalgalite 1.1.2 for DB access.
    .....[...]

    Finished in 3.67 seconds
    102 examples, 0 failures


== Usage

The library consists of three major parts: the Config ORM classes, the
Handler classes, and the Control class.

=== Config ORM Classes

There's one class per table like with most ORMs, a Mongrel2::Config::DSL mixin
for adding the Ruby configuration DSL to your namespace, and the top-level
Mongrel2::Config class, which manages the database connection, installs the
schema, etc.

* Mongrel2::Config
  * Mongrel2::Config::DSL
  * Mongrel2::Config::Server
  * Mongrel2::Config::Host
  * Mongrel2::Config::Route
  * Mongrel2::Config::Directory
  * Mongrel2::Config::Proxy
  * Mongrel2::Config::Handler
  * Mongrel2::Config::Setting
  * Mongrel2::Config::Mimetype
  * Mongrel2::Config::Statistic
  * Mongrel2::Config::Log


=== Handler Classes

The main handler class is, unsurprisingly, Mongrel2::Handler. It uses a
Mongrel2::Connection object to talk to the server, wrapping the request data
up in a Mongrel2::Request object, and expecting a Mongrel2::Response in
response.

There are specialized Request classes for each of the kinds of requests
Mongrel2 sends:

* Mongrel2::HTTPRequest
* Mongrel2::JSONRequest
* Mongrel2::XMLRequest

These are all {overridable}[rdoc-ref:Mongrel2::Request.register_request_type]
if you should want a more-specialized class for one of them.

The Mongrel2::Handler class itself has documentation on how to write your own
handlers.


=== The Control Class

The Mongrel2::Control class is an object interface to {the Mongrel2 control
port}[http://mongrel2.org/static/mongrel2-manual.html#x1-390003.8]. It can be
used to stop and restart the server, check its status, etc.


=== Other Classes

There are a few other classes and modules work checking out, too:

* Mongrel2::Table
* Mongrel2::Constants
* Mongrel2::Loggable


== Contributing

You can check out the current development source with Mercurial via its
{Trac project}[http://deveiate.org/projects/Ruby-Mongrel2]. Or if you 
prefer Git, via {its Github mirror}[https://github.com/ged/ruby-mongrel2].

After checking out the source, run:

    $ rake newb

This task will install any missing dependencies, run the tests/specs,
and generate the API documentation.


== License

Copyright (c) 2011, Michael Granger
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