# Rack 1.2, a modular Ruby webserver interface **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 17, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rack-1-2-a-modular-ruby-webserver-interface/190294 "2010-06-17T16:22:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **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:** [June 17, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rack-1-2-a-modular-ruby-webserver-interface/190294/1 "2010-06-17T16:22:43Z")
Hello, Today we are proud to announce the release of Rack 1.2. = 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 - June 13th, 2010: Tenth public release 1.2.0. - Removed Camping adapter: Camping 2.0 supports Rack as-is - Removed parsing of quoted values - Add Request.trace? and Request.options? - Add mime-type for .webm and .htc - Fix HTTP\_X\_FORWARDED\_FOR - Various multipart fixes - Switch test suite to bacon == Where can I get it? You can download Rack 1.2 at ``` http://chneukirchen.org/releases/rack-1.2.0.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-1.2 # 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 - Glassfish v3 - Phusion Passenger (which is mod\_rack for Apache and for nginx) - Rainbows! - Unicorn - Zbatery Any valid Rack app will run the same on all these handlers, without changing anything. == Supported web frameworks These frameworks include Rack adapters in their distributions: - Camping - Coset - Halcyon - Mack - Maveric - Merb - Racktools::SimpleApplication - Ramaze - Ruby on Rails - Rum - Sinatra - Sin - Vintage - Waves - Wee - … and many others. Current links to these projects can be found at [http://wiki.ramaze.net/Home#other-frameworks](http://wiki.ramaze.net/Home#other-frameworks) == 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 at [gemcutter.org](http://gemcutter.org). 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 post bugs, suggestions and patches to the bug tracker at [http://github.com/rack/rack/issues](http://github.com/rack/rack/issues). Mailing list archives are available at [http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel](http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel). Git repository (send Git patches to the mailing list): - [GitHub - rack/rack: A modular Ruby web server interface.](http://github.com/rack/rack) - [http://git.vuxu.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=rack-github.git](http://git.vuxu.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=rack-github.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. - Alex Beregszaszi, Alexander Kahn, Anil W., Aredridel, Ben Alpert, Dan K., Daniel Roethlisberger, Matt T., Tom R., Phil H., S. Brent Faulkner, Bosko M., Daniel Rodríguez Troitiño, Genki Takiuchi, Geoffrey Grosenbach, Julien Sanchez, Kamal Fariz Mahyuddin, Masayoshi T., Patrick A.m, Mig, Kazuhiro Nishiyama, Jon Bardin, Konstantin Haase, Larry Siden, Matias Korhonen, Sam Ruby, Simon C., Tim C., Timur Batyrshin, and Zach Brock for bug fixing and other improvements. - Eric W., Hongli L., Jeremy K. for their continuous support and API improvements. - Yehuda K. and Carl L. for refactoring rackup. - Brian C., for Rack::ContentType. - Graham Batty, for improved handler loading. - 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. - 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, 2010 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. c69b0a120b249832f9701e6a9fe6692e6728940f rack-1.2.0.tar.gz 16659bbc2646787a1626038bb5b97a03ef0f27e2 rack-1.2.0.gem