Rack (web server interface)
API specification for web applications in programming language Ruby / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rack is a modular interface between web servers and web applications developed in the Ruby programming language. With Rack, application programming interfaces (APIs) for web frameworks and middleware are wrapped into a single method call handling HTTP requests and responses.
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Original author(s) | Leah Neukirchen |
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Developer(s) | James Tucker, Josh Peek, José Valim, Michael Fellinger, Aaron Patterson, Santiago Pastorino, Konstantin Haase |
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Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Middleware |
License | MIT License |
Website | rack |
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Rack is used by many Ruby web frameworks and libraries, such as Ruby on Rails and Sinatra. It is available as a Ruby Gem. Many Ruby applications are called "rack-compliant".[2]
Rack has inspired similar frameworks in JavaScript[3] (jack.js), Clojure,[4] Perl (Plack), Common Lisp (Clack),[5] and .NET (OWIN).[6]