Thin

Tiny, fast & funny HTTP server

Thin is a Ruby web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history:

 * the Mongrel parser: the root of Mongrel speed and security
 * Event Machine: a network I/O library with extremely high scalability, performance and stability
 * Rack: a minimal interface between webservers and Ruby frameworks

Which makes it, with all humility, the most secure, stable, fast and extensible Ruby web server bundled in an easy to use gem for your own pleasure.

Installation

For the latest stable version:

 sudo gem install thin

or using my mirror (might be more recent):

 sudo gem install thin --source http://code.macournoyer.com

Or from source:

 git clone http://code.macournoyer.com/git/thin.git
 cd thin
 rake install

Or from the Subversion mirror (might be out of date):

 svn co http://code.macournoyer.com/svn/thin/trunk thin

Usage

A thin script is offered to easily start your Rails application:

 cd to/your/rails/app
 thin start

But Thin is also usable through Rack rackup command. You need to setup a config.ru file and require thin in it:

 cat <<EOS
 require 'thin'

 app = proc do |env|
  [200, {'Content-Type'=>'text/html'}, ['hi']]
 end

 run app
 EOS
 rackup -s thin

See example/config.ru for details and rackup -h

License

Ruby License, www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt.

Credits

The parser was stolen from Mongrel mongrel.rubyforge.org by Zed Shaw. Mongrel Web Server (Mongrel) is copyrighted free software by Zed A. Shaw <zedshaw at zedshaw dot com> You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the GPL.

Thin is copyright Marc-Andre Cournoyer <macournoyer@gmail.com>

Please report any bug at code.macournoyer.com/thin/trac.fcgi/newticket and security issues directly to me at macournoyer@gmail.com.