HTTP upload server in Ruby

Question

I'm thinking to build an HTTP upload server in Ruby for my project. So far, I'm looking at setting up a Rack server to run with "Rainbow!" or a sinatra server with Rack middleware. The server is required to support HTTP uploads with multipart and chunking. Is this a good choice?

I'd love to see some examples how to set up a simple HTTP upload server but I couldn't find anywhere on the 'net.

Answer 1

Since a file upload can take a while, an important point of uploading files in Ruby are blocking processes while a file is uploaded. You might want to look into projects that are based on EventMachine and/or Goliath to achieve non-blocking processing of HTTP requests. Some ideas here:

• http://isurfsoftware.com/blog/2011/05/12/2011-experimenting-with-goliath-and-EventMachine/
• https://gist.github.com/rweald/969981
• http://www.bigfastblog.com/rubys-eventmachine-part-3-thin