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= Rainbows! - unicorn for sleepy apps and slow clients
\Rainbows! is an HTTP server for sleepy Rack applications. It is based on
unicorn, but designed to handle applications that expect long
request/response times and/or slow clients.
If you're on GNU/Linux and overwhelmed by options in \Rainbows!,
consider {yahns}[http://yahns.yhbt.net/] as it has fewer options
and more energy-efficient during non-peak traffic and may also
be configured as a single worker process.
For Rack applications not heavily bound by slow external network
dependencies, consider unicorn instead as it simpler and easier to
debug.
== \Rainbows! is about Diversity
We aim to support as many concurrency models as we can because they all
suck; differently.
For network concurrency, models we currently support are:
* {Coolio}[link:Rainbows/Coolio.html]
* {CoolioFiberSpawn}[link:Rainbows/CoolioFiberSpawn.html]
* {CoolioThreadPool}[link:Rainbows/CoolioThreadPool.html]
* {CoolioThreadSpawn}[link:Rainbows/CoolioThreadSpawn.html]
* {Epoll}[link:Rainbows/Epoll.html]
* {EventMachine}[link:Rainbows/EventMachine.html]
* {FiberPool}[link:Rainbows/FiberPool.html]
* {FiberSpawn}[link:Rainbows/FiberSpawn.html]
* {NeverBlock}[link:Rainbows/NeverBlock.html]
* {Revactor}[link:Rainbows/Revactor.html]
* {ThreadPool}[link:Rainbows/ThreadPool.html]
* {ThreadSpawn}[link:Rainbows/ThreadSpawn.html]
* {WriterThreadPool}[link:Rainbows/WriterThreadPool.html]
* {WriterThreadSpawn}[link:Rainbows/WriterThreadSpawn.html]
* {XEpoll}[link:Rainbows/XEpoll.html]
* {XEpollThreadPool}[link:Rainbows/XEpollThreadPool.html]
* {XEpollThreadSpawn}[link:Rainbows/XEpollThreadSpawn.html]
We have {many more on the way}[link:TODO.html] for handling network
concurrency. Additionally, we also use multiple processes (managed by
Unicorn) for robustness and CPU/memory/disk concurrency.
We also provide Rainbows::AppPool Rack middleware for some network
concurrency models for limiting application concurrency independently of
network concurrency.
== Features
* Designed for {Rack}[http://rack.github.io/], the standard for
modern Ruby HTTP applications.
* Built on {Unicorn}[http://unicorn.bogomips.org/], inheriting its
process/socket management features such as transparent upgrades and
Ruby configuration DSL.
* As with Unicorn, it is able to stream large request bodies off the
socket to the application while the client is still uploading. Since
\Rainbows! can handle slow clients, this feature is more useful than
it is with Unicorn.
* Combines heavyweight concurrency (worker processes) with lightweight
concurrency (Events/Fibers/Actors/Threads), allowing CPU/memory/disk to
be scaled independently of client connections. More concurrency models
(listed in the TODO) will be supported as we find time for them.
* We give you {lots of options}[link:Summary.html] with more
{on the way}[link:TODO.html].
== Applications
\Rainbows! is mainly designed for the odd things Unicorn sucks at:
* 3rd-party APIs (to services outside your control/LAN)
* OpenID consumers (to providers outside your control/LAN)
* Reverse proxy implementations with editing/censoring
(to upstreams outside your control/LAN)
* Comet
* BOSH (with slow clients)
* HTTP server push
* Long polling
* Reverse AJAX
* real-time upload processing (via {upr}[http://upr.bogomips.org/])
\Rainbows! can also be used to service slow clients directly even with
fast applications.
== License
\Rainbows! is copyright 2009,2010 by all contributors (see logs in git).
\Rainbows! is licensed under the Ruby (1.8) license or the GPLv2 or later.
See the included {LICENSE}[link:LICENSE.html] file for more details.
\Rainbows! is 100% Free Software.
== Install
You may install it via RubyGems on RubyGems.org:
gem install rainbows
== Usage
=== for Rack applications
In APP_ROOT (where config.ru is located), run:
rainbows
\Rainbows! will bind to all interfaces on TCP port 8080 by default.
=== Configuration File(s)
\Rainbows! will look for the config.ru file used by rackup in APP_ROOT.
For deployments, it can use a config file for Unicorn and
\Rainbows!-specific options specified by the +--config-file/-c+
command-line switch. \Rainbows! accepts all options found in
{Unicorn::Configurator}[http://unicorn.bogomips.org/Unicorn/Configurator.html]
as well as the "\Rainbows!" block, so you can have the following in your
config file:
worker_processes 4 # assuming four CPU cores
Rainbows! do
use :FiberSpawn
worker_connections 100
end
See the {Rainbows! configuration}[link:Rainbows/Configurator.html]
{documentation}[link:Rainbows/Configurator.html]
for more details.
== Development
You can get the latest source via git from the following locations
(these versions may not be stable):
git://bogomips.org/rainbows.git
git://repo.or.cz/rainbows.git (mirror)
You may browse the code from the web and download the latest snapshot
tarballs here:
* http://bogomips.org/rainbows.git (cgit)
* http://repo.or.cz/w/rainbows.git (gitweb)
Inline patches (from "git format-patch") to the mailing list are
preferred because they allow code review and comments in the reply to
the patch.
We will adhere to mostly the same conventions for patch submissions as
git itself. See the Documentation/SubmittingPatches document
distributed with git on on patch submission guidelines to follow. Just
don't email the git mailing list or maintainer with \Rainbows! patches.
== Disclaimer
There is NO WARRANTY whatsoever if anything goes wrong, but let us know
and we'll try our best to fix it.
== Contact
All feedback (bug reports, user/development discussion, patches, pull
requests) go to the mailing list. Patches must be sent inline
(git format-patch -M + git send-email). No subscription is necessary
to post on the mailing list. No top posting.
* email: mailto:rainbows-public@bogomips.org
* subscribe: mailto:rainbows-public+subscribe@bogomips.org
* archives: http://bogomips.org/rainbows-public/
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