Sessions at Ruby Lugdunum 2011 about HTTP

Sunday 26th June 2011

• Real Time Rack

  by The Konstantin

  At least since node.js, everyone knows that real time HTTP responses are the next big thing. The secrets of handling incoming requests asynchronously with Ruby is not yet far spread among Rubyists, as the internals needed for such responses are neither specified nor documented and there is a lack of tools. Still, it is possible to use Server-Sent Events, Websockets and akin with Rack today. This talk will demonstrate the underlying technologies and how to use them.

  • HTTP
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Sinatra
  • WebSockets

  At 2:00pm to 2:45pm, Sunday 26th June

  Coverage link slide deck

• Goliath and his friends : Rack, EventMachine and Fibers

  by Bruno Michel

  Goliath is event machine based. It uses Rack API and new features of Ruby 1.9.2. Both makes it a really lightweight framework capable of processing asynchronously a large amount of data in an elegant way. It fits to write light web services as HTTP streaming file uploads, proxies, twitter, firehoses, etc.

  • Asynchronous
  • Goliath
  • HTTP
  • Ruby

  At 4:00pm to 4:45pm, Sunday 26th June

  Coverage slide deck