# Mongrel 0.2.1 HTTP Library (Fancy URI Matching) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 2, 2006, 8:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-2-1-http-library-fancy-uri-matching/100233 "2006-02-02T08:27:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/da6949/32.png) [@Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zed_S)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 8:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-2-1-http-library-fancy-uri-matching/100233/1 "2006-02-02T08:27:50Z")
And now it’s time for yet another Mongrel release. Mongrel is a small fast HTTP library written in (partly) Ruby. It is intended to be used by web app framework authors to make their applications fast and deployable without resorting to SCGI/FastCGI trickery. Mongrel is tested to work on Linux and Mac OS X (with more reports welcome). You’ll need a full compiler to install Mongrel since it has a C extension to work the voodoo. - [http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel/) – project page. - [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/) – lame RDoc as home page. You can grab downloads on the project page’s File tab, or you can do a simple: gem install mongrel To get the latest stuff via RubyGems. As usual you can also grab the source .tgz and build from scratch if you need. People with mongrel already installed can just gem update. == Changes This release is pretty simple: - Fixed a few bugs people reported. - Cleaned up some documentation that people called “juvenile”. - And then redesigned the Trie search so that it finds any handler at any character in any URI in one search. - Wrote more extensive tests for the URIClassifier to test out the new Trie implementation. This change lays the foundation for pretty much everything I need to start adding the important components many web application frameworks need. First up will be the ability to serve files, directories, cache results, and efficiently upload/receive files. == The New URIClassifier The URIClassifier now lets you attach HttpHandlers (well, any object really) to any URI at pretty much any point. For the majority of cases people will just attach a few URIs like this: h = Mongrel::HttpServer.new(“0.0.0.0”, “3000”) h.register(“/test”, SimpleHandler.new) h.run.join Which is the way things always worked anyhow. The big change though is that you can load up handlers at any individual character, and the longest match wins. So, you can even do this (in theory): h.register(“/test;mystuff;thosestuffs”, WeirdHandler.new) The main advantage of this is that the URIClassifier doesn’t actually parse the URI, it just uses the trie to find the longest prefix with a handler. I’m sure people will find bizarre uses for this. Also, registering and unregistering is pretty fast. The tradeoff with this is that you’ll use more memory than you would with just a Hash. == Testing Please test this out and shoot me e-mails with bug reports. Better yet, use the [http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel/) tracker if you can. I like lists. Zed A. Shaw > **[Zed A. shaw](https://zedshaw.com/)** > > Personal essays and writings by Zed A. Shaw. ---
**Author:** ![Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/da6949/32.png) [@Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zed_S)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-2-1-http-library-fancy-uri-matching/100233/2 "2006-02-02T14:29:32Z")
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**Author:** ![Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/da6949/32.png) [@Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zed_S)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-2-1-http-library-fancy-uri-matching/100233/3 "2006-02-02T19:35:19Z")
Done. I’ll post a 0.2.2 tonight with this and some other improvements. BTW, could you describe to me your win32 build setup so that I can try building it too? Zed ---
**Author:** ![Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/da6949/32.png) [@Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zed_S)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-2-1-http-library-fancy-uri-matching/100233/4 "2006-02-02T22:03:28Z")
simply add #if defined(\_MSC\_VER) #include \ #endif to your header http11\_parser.h and run extconf.rb for makefile generation or from the top folder setup.rb for building and install. \_MSC\_VER for testing microsoft compiler, \_WIN32 is more generic for platform. 🙂