Ofcourse, rack could always use some help, and from what I hear: especially with pre-release testing. But to respond back to the original poster, Ruby is perfectly capable of producing a web application using the stdlib alone [1], but either way you're going to be using a library for assistance and rack is about as standard as it gets when it comes to web apps. 1: http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/web.html 2012/1/24 Matthias WçÄhter <matthias / waechter.wiz.at>: > On 24.01.2012 16:33, Steve Klabnik wrote: >> >> Rack in general could use some help. > > > What help are you referring to? It doesnÃÕ look as if there was much too > in the conceptual area, or at least there is no big ongoing discussion. > > What would you like to see being changed or added to rack? > > Matthias >