# App Servers

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/app-servers/181337>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [January 10, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/app-servers/181337 "2010-01-10T06:18:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![CSKSPonnappa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@CSKSPonnappa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CSKSPonnappa)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/app-servers/181337/1 "2010-01-10T06:18:44Z")

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Folks, a quick question - is there an equivalent app server to Thin  
(C-Ruby) and Glassfish (JRuby) for IronRuby? Something small, with no  
external deps that I can gem install?

Thanks,  
Sidu.

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**Author:** ![CSKSPonnappa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@CSKSPonnappa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CSKSPonnappa)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 6:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/app-servers/181337/2 "2010-01-10T06:33:22Z")

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> Folks, a quick question - is there an equivalent app server to Thin  
> (C-Ruby) and Glassfish (JRuby) for IronRuby? Something small, with no  
> external deps that I can gem install?

There is cassini, a small [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) webserver, which is what Visual Studio  
uses as it’s default debug webserver. However, there is no gem which  
installs just that for you, yet.

Currently your choices are webrick, cassini, or IIS; cassini and IIS  
require the IronRuby.Rack adapter to run any rack-based applications.  
I’m currently updating the Rails instructions, so I’ll include using  
cassini as well.