RackStep is (yet another) micro ruby framework for microservices and web development.
Main goals are:
- be as simple as possible.
- keep the source code small.
- implement only the necessary; no overcomplication.
- allow easy implementation of microservices and single-page application (SPA).
- use a pure object oriented approach, avoiding DSLs and configuration files.
RackStep is developed and tested with Ruby 2.2.3. The only hard dependency is Rack itself, but there are a few others recommended gem dependancies:
- unicorn: fast rack-compatible server that can be used for production.
- simplecov: a simple way to generate statistics about your unit tests coverage.
Make sure you have ruby 2.2.3 installed (ruby --version). If you don't, we recomend you to use rbenv to install it.
Install the bundle gem if you don't have it already: gem install bundle
To create a new application, you may clone one of the following repositories as a starting point example:
A full app example: https://github.com/mfdavid/rackstep-app-template
A minimum app example: https://github.com/mfdavid/rackstep-minimum-app-template
Go into the directory you cloned the project and install the dependancies by running: bundle install
Start the application server using any rack-compatible server. For development I recommend using shotgun or rackup. For production, RackStep full app example is pre-configured to use unicorn.
RackStep is still in very early stage of development and testing. Right now there is only one website that was build using it: Ninirc.com
- use RDoc or YARD for documentation.
- create more tests.
- add some performance tests and do some optimizations.
- solve all the TODOs listed around the source code.
RackStep is developed by Marcio Frayze David - [email protected].