# \[ANN\] Ebb web server version 0.0.1

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 28, 2008, 12:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ebb-web-server-version-0-0-1/130454 "2008-02-28T12:46:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 12:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ebb-web-server-version-0-0-1/130454/1 "2008-02-28T12:46:17Z")

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Hi,

Ebb aims to be a small and fast web server specifically for hosting  
web frameworks like Rails, Merb, and in the future Django.

The design is similar to the Evented Mongrel web server; except  
instead of  
using EventMachine (a ruby binding to libevent), the Ebb web server  
is  
written in C and uses the libev event loop library.

Because Ebb is written mostly in C, other language bindings can be  
added to  
make it useful to Non-Ruby frameworks. For example, a Python WSGI  
interface is  
forthcoming.

The Ruby binding is available as a Ruby Gem. It can be install by  
executing

gem install ebb

Ebb depends on having glib2 headers and libraries installed. (Easily  
available  
on any UNIX system.) The source code can be retrieved by executing

git clone [http://repo.or.cz/r/ebb.git](http://repo.or.cz/r/ebb.git)

I release Ebb under the MIT license.

More information and some preliminary benchmarks are up at  
[http://ebb.rubyforge.org/](http://ebb.rubyforge.org/)

Thanks,  
ry