# Mongrel 0.3.4 -- Win32 Gems/Better CGIWrapper **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 16, 2006, 8:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-3-4-win32-gems-better-cgiwrapper/69100 "2006-02-16T08:40:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **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 16, 2006, 8:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-3-4-win32-gems-better-cgiwrapper/69100/1 "2006-02-16T08:40:02Z")
Hello Everyone, Today’s Mongrel is the first release to sport spiffy pre-built win32 gems. This comes thanks to Wilson B. donating some Rakefile magic that does the stuff for me. Everyone who uses win32 should send Wilson a thank-you since without him you’d be a victim of my laziness for at least a few more weeks. People who are testing and trying Mongrel out should grab this release, but please expect it to have bugs as there’s pretty fresh code in it. It’s been tested but there’s still a few situations to figure out (like redirects from behind a proxy). == What Is Mongrel Mongrel is a fast HTTP library and server for Ruby that is intended for hosting Ruby web applications of any kind using plain HTTP rather than FastCGI or SCGI. It is framework agnostic and already supports Ruby On Rails, Og+Nitro, and Camping frameworks. (Is anyone else getting tired of this?) You can get information on Mongrel and look at people’s dogs at: - [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/) == Getting Mongrel You can go to the project page to get the source or gem downloads manually, or you can just do: $ gem install mongrel (people who have it already can do gem update) == Changes This release is mostly about getting a win32 gem out for people to try. Hopefully it all works right, but let me know. There is also a much improved and refined CGIWrapper for getting Rails to work right, and this has been tested with eXPlainPMT as well as Typo. Redirects work, forms, etc. What doesn’t work right yet is redirecting when you’re behind a proxy, and probably anything related to file uploads. That’ll come next release. There’s also a few little bug fixes. == Next Release The 0.4 goal is to get Rails support rock solid. To get there I’ve started installing various Rails applications and will use Watir to run automated tests. Anyone who has some Watir tests floating around that they’d like to donate will be my friend. I’ve also got a plan for the mysterious caching thing I’ve mentioned in the past. I’ll be writing a little document and asking for feedback as it’s quite weird. Otherwise, please test this 0.3.4 release and let me know what you hit. 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 16, 2006, 9:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-3-4-win32-gems-better-cgiwrapper/69100/2 "2006-02-16T09:46:17Z")
Hi Great work! Just one question: is there a specific reason why the gem for 0.3.4 requires ruby 1.8.4? ---
**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 16, 2006, 11:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-3-4-win32-gems-better-cgiwrapper/69100/3 "2006-02-16T11:20:09Z")
hi Zed thanks for the new version! i’m using rails webservices from within a controller, specifically I’m doing this to get a remote object def remote(user) account\_server = “[http://localhost](http://localhost):#{$site\_spec[“account\_server”]}/user/api/RPC” ActionWebService::Client::XmlRpc.new(UserApi, account\_server) end where the “account\_server” port is actually an ssh tunnel so it is remote. anyway works when account\_server URL is a webrick hosted server. With mongrel I get the correct request/response in terms of the xmlrpc payload, but I get the following error displayed on the client (i.e. in this case the rails controller) Wrong content-type: now, this is with 0.34 and it does not use the proxy as in my last post. i think this error is an improvement over 0.33 too, because in that case I was getting “wrong size” errors or something like that, with a print out of the given and expected bytes. thanks for any help BD ---
**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 16, 2006, 1:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-3-4-win32-gems-better-cgiwrapper/69100/4 "2006-02-16T13:08:42Z")
Version 1.8.4 of Ruby has the readpartial function for Socket (and other IO). Without this Mongrel don’t work so well. 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 18, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-3-4-win32-gems-better-cgiwrapper/69100/5 "2006-02-18T02:14:28Z")
Comments below… On 2/16/06 5:18 AM, “\_blackdog” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > ``` > ActionWebService::Client::XmlRpc.new(UserApi, account_server) > > ``` > > end > > where the “account\_server” port is actually an ssh tunnel so it is > remote. I think I’ve got this solved and should have it out in the next release. I’m thinking maybe Sunday for it. Stay tuned and thanks for the testing. 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 18, 2006, 6:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-3-4-win32-gems-better-cgiwrapper/69100/6 "2006-02-18T06:16:15Z")
Zed S. wrote: > Version 1.8.4 of Ruby has the readpartial function for Socket (and other > IO). Without this Mongrel don’t work so well. I just tried the Win32 gem, but it complains that I do not have msvcr70.dll. I do, however, have msvcr71.dll (in n ruby\bin dir), which I believe is what comes as part of the recent Ruby 1.8.4 Windows 1-click package. (I also have msvcr71.dll as part of 1-click installation on an other box with Ruby 1.8.2.) But Mongrel seems to insist on a particular version (perhaps hardcoded in http11.so), so it won’t run (unless , I imagine, I go dig up that specific DLL someplace). Thanks, – James B. “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” - H. Abelson and G. Sussman (in "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) ---
**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 16, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-3-4-win32-gems-better-cgiwrapper/69100/7 "2006-02-16T14:15:14Z")
Let me try with an AWS setup. It might be that the way CGI tries to set the content-type is conflicting with how I’ve interpreted it. And that’s an empty content type right? 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 18, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-3-4-win32-gems-better-cgiwrapper/69100/8 "2006-02-18T16:13:07Z")
DÅ?a Sobota 18 Február 2006 06:13 James B. napísal: > But Mongrel seems to insist on a particular version (perhaps hardcoded > in http11.so), so it won’t run (unless , I imagine, I go dig up that > specific DLL someplace). Yay for msvcrt version lossage _mutter_. My favourite was .NET 2.0 cl linking against v8.0 which was provided with the SDK for everything -except- x86 architectures, and not available otherwise at the time. I believe it’s the fault of Zed S.'s (or whoever builds the win32 gem) version of Visual Studio linking stuff against it - yes, it is probably hardcoded in the so. I believe the easiest thing will be getting the 7.0 version and dropping it on the PATH until someone forces the VS to link against v7.1. David V.