# Looking for Webric example code **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 23, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-webric-example-code/69747 "2006-09-23T19:50:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dokondr)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-webric-example-code/69747/1 "2006-09-23T19:50:36Z")
I need examples of writing Webric code handling GET and POST requests. Thanks! Dima ---
**Author:** ![dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dokondr)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-webric-example-code/69747/2 "2006-09-23T23:12:03Z")
On Sep 23, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Dmitri K. wrote: > I need examples of writing Webric code handling GET and POST requests. > Thanks! Google is your friend: [http://www.google.com/search?q=webrick](http://www.google.com/search?q=webrick) See the Hello Servlet example on the first link, or follow the links on that page to: [http://microjet.ath.cx/webrickguide/html/do\_Methods.html](http://microjet.ath.cx/webrickguide/html/do_Methods.html) and: [http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/WEBrick/servlets.html](http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/WEBrick/servlets.html) James Edward G. II ---
**Author:** ![dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dokondr)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-webric-example-code/69747/3 "2006-09-24T00:06:29Z")
Thanks a lot James! This is exactly what I was looking for! (or maybe I should go to ROR directly, without stoping at WEBrick?..) James G. wrote: > On Sep 23, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Dmitri K. wrote: > > > I need examples of writing Webric code handling GET and POST requests. > > Thanks! > > Google is your friend: > > [webrick - Google Search](http://www.google.com/search?q=webrick) > > See the Hello Servlet example on the first link, or follow the links > on that page to: > > [http://microjet.ath.cx/webrickguide/html/do\_Methods.html](http://microjet.ath.cx/webrickguide/html/do_Methods.html) > > and: > > [http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/WEBrick/servlets.html](http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/WEBrick/servlets.html) > > James Edward G. II ---
**Author:** ![dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dokondr)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-webric-example-code/69747/4 "2006-09-24T00:48:16Z")
I’ve had to “upgrade” to 1.8.5, and suddenly PTY is doing weird stuff. After it looses a connecting, even though I have it in a begin rescue end sort of structure, it throws an exception and crashes after it exits the def, throwing an exception pty - exited: 26825 (PTY::ChildExited) and bombs, unless i put a rescue structure around the next IO type operation… I don’t understand, this didn’t happen in 1.8.1 Please help! Mark ---
**Author:** ![dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dokondr)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-webric-example-code/69747/5 "2006-09-24T02:54:57Z")
“or maybe I should go to ROR directly, without stoping at WEBrick?” Depends on what you need. I use Webrick a lot to (among other things) specify different document roots dynamically, ie when someone needs a certain file which he cant find on the www but which is in one of my archives, then a ruby scripts dumps that file into a temporary dir and starts a special webrick server for a limited amount of time before cleaning up again. There are myriads of more different usage examples, my bottom line would be that it never hurts to have a good look at Webrick for the stuff YOU could need 🙂 Btw about the Google thing - I feel that Webrick is underrepresented on Google as far as up-to-date examples are considered. So google is NOT always the best solution, i have had recieved more help when posting specific questions about Webrick in the past too. ---
**Author:** ![dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dokondr)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-webric-example-code/69747/6 "2006-09-24T23:26:41Z")
On 23 Sep 2006, at 23:06, Dmitri K. wrote: > Thanks a lot James! This is exactly what I was looking for! (or > maybe I > should go to ROR directly, without stoping at WEBrick?..) WEBrick is very good for writing quick and dirty HTTP servers - especially if all you want to do is mount some code at a given URL and return some output nicely wrapped with HTTP headers etc. Writing complex web applications with vanilla WEBrick is a little more challenging but can be done however you’re probably better off using RoR, Camping or one of the other frameworks. Ellie ## Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds\_to? :reason ---
**Author:** ![dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dokondr)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-webric-example-code/69747/7 "2006-09-24T23:57:26Z")
Eleanor McHugh wrote: > On 23 Sep 2006, at 23:06, Dmitri K. wrote: > > > Thanks a lot James! This is exactly what I was looking for! (or > > maybe I > > should go to ROR directly, without stoping at WEBrick?..) > > WEBrick is very good for writing quick and dirty HTTP servers - > especially if all you want to do is mount some code at a given URL > and return some output nicely wrapped with HTTP headers etc. Writing > complex web applications with vanilla WEBrick is a little more > challenging but can be done however you’re probably better off using > RoR, Camping or one of the other frameworks. > > Ellie > > ## Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains > > raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds\_to? :reason Thanks for update! I am thinking about using Webric for lightweight REST-full protocol between WEB peers. In other words I need embedable WEB server that will allow sevral apps exchange messages using simple protocol on top of HTTP (get & post + params). The main question here: can Webric be embeded in another application so threads of this app will not be blocked and will continue to work without starvation. In fact, application I am talking about may use variable number of threads growing from 1 to 100 at different times (these in addition to Webric threads). ---
**Author:** ![dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dokondr)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-webric-example-code/69747/8 "2006-09-25T00:54:49Z")
On 24 Sep 2006, at 22:57, Dmitri K. wrote: > Thanks for update! I am thinking about using Webric for lightweight > REST-full protocol between WEB peers. In other words I need embedable > WEB server that will allow sevral apps exchange messages using simple > protocol on top of HTTP (get & post + params). I spent several months earlier in the year working on something very similar (all closed-source unfortunately) and WEBrick provided a good base. > The main question here: can Webric be embeded in another > application so > threads of this app will not be blocked and will continue to work > without starvation. In fact, application I am talking about may use > variable number of threads growing from 1 to 100 at different times > (these in addition to Webric threads). Well WEBrick uses its own thread pool and seems to do a pretty good job of managing it, but they are green threads so you’ll have to make sure that none of the threads in your application are blocking or else the whole thing will stall. Depending upon your platform and how computationally intensive your application threads are you may run into some latency problems, but I doubt this will be the case with the number of threads in question. If latencies do ocur you might like to look at using dRb (distributed Ruby) to run some of your computationally intensive tasks in separate processes. Ellie ## Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds\_to? :reason ---
**Author:** ![dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dokondr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dokondr)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-webric-example-code/69747/9 "2006-09-25T01:54:53Z")
Dmitri K. wrote: > Thanks a lot James! This is exactly what I was looking for! (or maybe I > should go to ROR directly, without stoping at WEBrick?..) You should also look at Nitro, IOWA and Cerise. Each these has a different approach to Web development, and you might do well to find out which one best maps to what you want to do. You can also use Mongrel or Serverside in place of WEBrick; either of those should give you better performance than WEBrick. – James B. “A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.” - A. Perlis