# \[ANN\] Ebb web server version 0.0.1

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ebb-web-server-version-0-0-1/130456>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [February 28, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ebb-web-server-version-0-0-1/130456 "2008-02-28T12:53:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ebb-web-server-version-0-0-1/130456/1 "2008-02-28T12:53:23Z")

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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