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copied!<p>In regards to Goliath, Goliath is based on Thin (I started with the thin code and when from there). A lot of the code has changed (e.g. using http_parser.rb instead of mongrel parser) but the original basis was Thin.</p> <p>Launching the server is just a matter of executing your .rb file. The system is the same as Sinatra uses (I borrowed the code from Sinatra to make it work). You can also write you own server if you want, there are examples in the repo if you need the extra control. For us, we wanted the launching to be as simple as possible and require as few files created as possible. So, launching .rb file and using God to bringup/restart servers worked well.</p> <p>Tests you write with RSpec/Test::Unit and run the test file as you normally would. The tests for Goliath will fire up the reactor and send real requests to the API from your unit tests (note, this doesn't fork, it uses EM to run the reactor in the same process as the tests). All this stuff is wrapped in a test_helper that goliath provides.</p> <p>There is no rackup file with Goliath. You run the .rb file directly. The Goliath application has the middleware use commands baked straight into the .rb file. For us at PostRank, this was the easiest and clearest way to define the server. You had all of your use statements (with any extra bits they use) visible as you work on the file instead of having multiple files. For us, this was a win, your mileage may vary.</p> <p>I have no idea if websocket-rack would work but, there is a branch in the repo for baking websocket support straight into Goliath. I haven't looked at it in a while (there were some upstream bugs that got fixed that were required) but it shouldn't be too hard to get it up and running and, with the upstream fixed, merged into master.</p> <p>To your question about em-synchrony and thin, you should just be able to wrap an EM.synchrony {} block around your code. The synchrony method just calls down to EM.run and wraps your block in a new fiber. If the reactor is already running EM will just execute the passed block immediately. As long as Thin has already started the reactor this should work fine.</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> The websockets branch as been merged into Goliath mainline, so there is WebSocket support baked straight into Goliath if you're running from HEAD.</p>

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