ControlTower¶ ↑

ControlTower is a web application server for Rack-based MacRuby applications based on Apple’s Grand Central Dispatch libraries.

It is composed of three major components: A Grand Central Dispatch based networking layer, the Mongrel HTTP parser, and a Rack web application interface.

Installation¶ ↑

ControlTower can be installed as a gem using the ‘macgem` command. To build and install from source, go to the root directory of the project and run:

$ rake package
$ sudo macgem install pkg/control_tower-1.0-universal-darwin-10.gem

Usage¶ ↑

There are currently only 4 supported command line options:

• -R <config.ru> : Where you specify the Rack-up config to run

• -a <host> : Address to bind server to (default: 0.0.0.0)

• -p <port> : Port on which to run the server (default: 3000)

• -c : Enable serving requests on a concurrent GCD queue

Sample¶ ↑

There are a collection of Rack-up configs located in the “sample” directory that demonstrate some features of ControlTower and MacRuby. See the README in that directory for more information.

License¶ ↑

All the files in this distribution are covered under the Ruby’s license (see the file COPYING).