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Dirk Breuer commented on THRIFT-468:
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Thanks for your fast answer. Apperently those to things are not really the
same. The Thrift Mongrel Support is great for using it as a standalone service
without Rails. Rails itself starts a Mongrel to serve the underlying
application. A Mongrel Handler as used in the Thrift Mongrel implementation is
not able to act as a stackable filter. With the newly added Rack support you
can easily integrate different Thrift processors into your Rails application.
Which is really cool if you have already a running application and want to add
RPC features to your app that are not JSON or something like REST, which is in
my opinion no alternative to Thrift.
> Rack Middleware Application for Rails
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> Key: THRIFT-468
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-468
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Library (Ruby)
> Reporter: Dirk Breuer
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: rack_middleware.patch
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> Thrift is a really great library and we decided to implement the majority of
> our service infrastructure for pkw.de with the help of Thrift. We already
> have some services up and running but are still experimenting how we can
> integrate it into our todays infrastructure. Since we are building and
> running a Ruby on Rails application and most of the stuff is still done in
> Ruby we needed a solution to integrate Thrift into Rails. We have some
> services build upon Thrift without Rails, but that became cumbersome as soon
> as you integrate any database connectivity. Suddenly you realize how much
> work is done by Rails itself for you concerning managing your environment.
> That said I had the idea to use the Rack integration of Rails 2.3 and build a
> custom Rack Application which intercepts all Posts to a certain URL and
> handle them through Thrift. I think this could be a really cool feature to
> integrate it into the main Thrift lib so I send you the enclosed patch.
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