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=Hello, and welcome to Mack!

Mack is a Ruby web application framework. It takes the best ideas from several frameworks, including Rails, Merb, and Ramaze, and tries to improve upon those ideas. Mack uses Rack[http://rack.rubyforge.org] as an abstraction layer to separate itself from it's deployment.

Mack is also about performance. Because Mack uses technologies like Thin[http://code.macournoyer.com/thin] and Rack[http://rack.rubyforge.org], Mack is a multithreaded and fast framework. Current tests show Mack/Thin[http://code.macournoyer.com/thin] is twice as fast as Rails/Mongrel. Mack tries to strip out a lot of the cruft from other frameworks, like Rails, and delivers you a fast, efficient framework designed for actual real world development.

===Required gems:
  rack
  ruby_extensions
  application_configuration
  cachetastic
  log4r

===Optional gems:
  mongrel
  thin
  activerecord
  datamapper

To run a Mack application:
  $ rake script:server

It will try and run the app using the following servers in this order:
  * Thin
  * Mongrel
  * WEBrick

rake script:server takes the following options:
  $ rake script:server PORT=<port> MACK_ENV=<environment> HANDLER=<rack_handler>
  
The port and rack_handler flags don't apply if you're using Thin[http://code.macournoyer.com/thin] to run the app, which is the default if it is installed. Use the thin.yml file in your application's config directory to configure Thin. The rack_handler one will allow you to switch which server is used to run the app. See Rack for more Rack::Handlers.
  
The environment can also be changed like this:
  $ rake script:server#<environment>
  
You can also run:
  $ rake console
This will give you console level access to your application.


===Other documentation:
Thin[http://code.macournoyer.com/thin]
Rack[http://rack.rubyforge.org]

Version data entries

6 entries across 6 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
mack-0.0.3	README
mack-0.0.4	README
mack-0.0.5	README
mack-0.0.6.1	README
mack-0.0.6.2	README
mack-0.0.6	README