Bob Hutchison <hutch / recursive.ca> writes:

> Hi Christian,
>
> On 16-May-07, at 11:20 AM, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Today I'm proud to release Rack 0.2.
>>
>> = 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.
>>
>
> [snip]
>
>> * Rack::Request, which also provides query string parsing and
>>   multipart handling.
>> * Rack::Response, for convenient generation of HTTP replies and
>>   cookie handling.
>> * Rack::MockRequest and Rack::MockResponse for efficient and quick
>>   testing of Rack application without real HTTP round-trips.
>
> Does this mean that, using Rack, I can make my own request/response
> objects up and push them into the web framework? That would be very
> very good.

Exactly.

> What about Merb? Have you discussed this with Ezra yet?

We talked some time ago, and he was interested in it.  Haven't heard
of him since, though.

> Cheers,
> Bob
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