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mruby-simplehttpserver is a HTTP Server with less dependency for mruby. mruby-simplehttpserver depends on mruby-io, mruby-socket and mruby-http. A Web server using mruby-simplehttpserver run on a environment which is not very rich like OSv or simple Linux box.

Install by mrbgems

add conf.gem line to build_config.rb:

MRuby::Build.new do |conf|

    # ... (snip) ...

    conf.gem mgem: 'mruby-simplehttpserver'
end

How to use SimpleHttpServer

SimpleHttpServer class provides a HTTP Server.

SimpleHttpServer has a Rack-like interface, so you should provide an "app": an object that responds to #call, taking the environment hash as a parameter, and returning an Array with three elements:

  • HTTP Status Code
  • Headers hash
  • Body

Example: a simple "OK" server

The following example code can be used as the basis of a HTTP Server which returning "OK":

app = -> (env) { [200, { 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' }, ['OK']] }

server = SimpleHttpServer.new(
  host: 'localhost',
  port: 8000,
  app: app,
)

server.run

SimpleHttpServer#run invokes a server that returns "OK". (If you want to stop the server, enter ^C key.) You can see its response with curl:

If you see more examples, see example/server.rb.

What does env receive?

env, which an "app" takes as a parameter, receives a hash object includes request headers and the following parameters:

  • REQUEST_METHOD ... GET, PUT, POST, DELETE and so on.
  • PATH_INFO ... request path or '/'
  • QUERY_STRING ... query string
  • HTTP_VERSION ... 'HTTP/1.1'

If you want to see how to parse an request, see also mattn/mruby-http.

Public Class Methods

new(server_ip = nil, port = nil, nonblock = nil, app = nil, debug = nil)

Creates a new SimpleHttpServer object.

The :server_ip should be a DNS hostname or IP address, the :port should be the listen port that server operates on.

If the :nonblock is true, take non-blocking mode. When default (nonblock = nil), it behaves blocking-mode.

The :app should be an object that responds to #call, taking the environment hash as a parameter, and returning an Array with three elements:

  • HTTP Status Code (Integer)
  • Headers hash (Hash)
  • Body (Array)

it's like a Rack interface.

If you want to debug, you can set :debug true.

Public Instance Methods

run()

A process requests on sock.

License

under the MIT License: