# Rack 0.9, a modular Ruby webserver interface **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 6, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rack-0-9-a-modular-ruby-webserver-interface/157010 "2009-01-06T13:54:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cneuhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@cneuhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cneuhaus)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rack-0-9-a-modular-ruby-webserver-interface/157010/1 "2009-01-06T13:54:13Z")
Hello, Today we are proud to release Rack 0.9. = Rack, a modular Ruby webserver interface Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web servers, web frameworks, and software in between (the so-called middleware) into a single method call. The exact details of this are described in the Rack specification, which all Rack applications should conform to. == Changes - January 6th, 2009: Fifth public release 0.9. - Rack is now managed by the Rack Core Team. - Rack::Lint is stricter and follows the HTTP RFCs more closely. - Added ConditionalGet middleware. - Added ContentLength middleware. - Added Deflater middleware. - Added Head middleware. - Added MethodOverride middleware. - Rack::Mime now provides popular MIME-types and their extension. - Mongrel Header now streams. - Added Thin handler. - Official support for swiftiplied Mongrel. - Secure cookies. - Made HeaderHash case-preserving. - Many bugfixes and small improvements. == Where can I get it? You can download Rack 0.9 at ``` http://chneukirchen.org/releases/rack-0.9.0.tar.gz http://rubyforge.org/projects/rack ``` Alternatively, you can checkout from the development repository with: ``` git clone git://github.com/rack/rack.git cd rack && git checkout rack-0.9 # for this release ``` == Supported web servers The included _handlers_ connect all kinds of web servers to Rack: - Mongrel - EventedMongrel - SwiftipliedMongrel - WEBrick - FCGI - CGI - SCGI - LiteSpeed - Thin These web servers include Rack handlers in their distributions: - Ebb - Fuzed - Phusion Passenger (which is mod\_rack for Apache) Any valid Rack app will run the same on all these handlers, without changing anything. == Supported web frameworks The included _adapters_ connect Rack with existing Ruby web frameworks: - Camping These frameworks include Rack adapters in their distributions: - Coset - Halcyon - Mack - Maveric - Merb - Racktools::SimpleApplication - Ramaze - Ruby on Rails - Sinatra - Sin - Vintage - Waves Current links to these projects can be found at > **[Ramaze • The Web Framework for Rubyists](http://ramaze.net/#other-frameworks)** > > Ramaze is a very simple and straight-forward web-framework. == rack-contrib The plethora of useful middleware created the need for a project that collects fresh Rack middleware. rack-contrib includes a variety of add-on components for Rack and it is easy to contribute new modules. - [GitHub - rack/rack-contrib: Contributed Rack Middleware and Utilities](http://github.com/rack/rack-contrib) == Installing with RubyGems A Gem of Rack is available. You can install it with: ``` gem install rack ``` I also provide a local mirror of the gems (and development snapshots) at my site: ``` gem install rack --source http://chneukirchen.org/releases/gems/ ``` == Contact Please mail bugs, suggestions and patches to [mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid). Mailing list archives are available at [http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel](http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel). There is a bug tracker at [http://rack.lighthouseapp.com/](http://rack.lighthouseapp.com/). Git repository (patches rebased on master are most welcome): - [GitHub - rack/rack: A modular Ruby web server interface.](http://github.com/rack/rack) - [http://git.vuxu.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=rack.git](http://git.vuxu.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=rack.git) You are also welcome to join the #rack channel on [irc.freenode.net](http://irc.freenode.net). == Thanks The Rack Core Team, consisting of - Christian N. (chneukirchen) - James T. (raggi) - Josh P. (josh) - Michael F. (manveru) - Ryan T. (rtomayko) - Scytrin dai Kinthra (scytrin) would like to thank: - Adrian M., for the LiteSpeed handler. - Christoffer S., for the first Rails adapter and Rack::Deflater. - Tim F., for the HTTP authentication code. - Luc H. for the Cookie sessions, the static file handler and bugfixes. - Armin Ronacher, for the logo and racktools. - Aredridel, Ben A., Dan K., Daniel Roethlisberger, Matt T., and Phil H. for bug fixing and other improvements. - Stephen B., for bug reports and documentation. - Gary W., for proposing a better Rack::Response interface. - Jonathan B., for improvements regarding Rack::Response. - Armin Röhrl, for tracking down bugs in the Cookie generator. - Alexander Kellett for testing the Gem and reviewing the announcement again. - Marcus Rückert, for help with configuring and debugging lighttpd. - The WSGI team for the well-done and documented work they’ve done and Rack builds up on. - All bug reporters and patch contributers not mentioned above. == Copyright Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009 Christian N. [http://purl.org/net/chneukirchen](http://purl.org/net/chneukirchen) Rack is freely distributable under the terms of an MIT-style license. == Links Rack:: [http://rack.rubyforge.org/](http://rack.rubyforge.org/) Rack’s Rubyforge project:: [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rack](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rack) Official Rack repositories:: [http://github.com/rack](http://github.com/rack) rack-devel mailing list:: [http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel](http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel) Happy hacking and have a nice day, Christian N. on behalf of the Rack Core Team. 445f542ed89308b9352d7653f33fe63c50453e3e rack-0.9.0.tar.gz 06e68087a0b650b0fcc6219cb43dc86a9939d457 rack-0.9.0.gem ---
**Author:** ![cneuhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@cneuhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cneuhaus)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rack-0-9-a-modular-ruby-webserver-interface/157010/2 "2009-01-06T15:27:41Z")
Christian N. wrote: > These web servers include Rack handlers in their distributions: > > - Ebb > - Fuzed > - Phusion Passenger (which is mod\_rack for Apache) Pretty much all the JRuby-based deployment options support Rack through Nick S.'s JRuby-Rack project as well. - Charlie