slancio / whews

We Have Enough Web Servers (So Here's Another One)

WHEWS - We Have Enough Web Servers (So Here's Another One)

An HTTP server modeled on Ruby on Rails built on WEBrick using Ruby metaprogramming.

Built to gain a deeper understanding of Rails.

Features included:

• Sessions using cookies
• ERB Templating for Views
• RESTful routing
• Params (parses request body and query string)

TODO

• Add Flash class which includes a #now method
• "Strong Parameters"
• Add Route Helpers (link_to, button_to)
• Add CSRF Tokens
• Add View partials
• Nested Routing
• User-defined helpers

How to use:

• Initialize new router and server objects (example in: bin/router_server.rb)
• Router#run sets the HTTP response body and content-type according to its inputs
• Router#draw takes a pattern, controller_class, and action_name to create a route for an HTTP request.