Re: [ANN/RFC] LMGTWTY - Web Sockets for Rack+Rainbows!

[James Tucker <jftucker@gmail.com>]

On 14 Dec 2009, at 18:42, Eric Wong wrote:

> James Tucker <jftucker@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 14 Dec 2009, at 00:23, Lakshan Perera wrote:
>>> This is awesome! Thanks for coming up something like this, in a
>>> short period of time.  I hope this would be part of Rack, which
>>> would enable all Ruby Frameworks to work effortlessly with
>>> WebSockets.
>> 
>> I really want to work out an abstraction away from IO instances, #read
>> and #write for this stuff. It's highly coupled, getting in the way of
>> tests, and heavy lifting environments. I have big plans for Rack 2.0
>> to remove all IO that has not been properly abstracted and decoupled
>> from implementation details, but that's a long way off, mostly due to
>> lack of time and incentive. In the meantime, I can implore you all to
>> take steps in the right direction :-)
> 
> Huh?  I don't see what the problem with IO instances/semantics is,
> especially with the availability of StringIO for testing.  "rack.input"
> is clearly specified and works fine as-is IMHO, though the rewindability
> requirement does add some unnecessary overhead.

I disagree with "works fine". It does not work fine with Thin, in fact, on the contrary, it forces some real ugliness into the system. I also think that StringIO is a really unfortunate thing to have to resort to, as it has so many short comings.

> 
> -- 
> Eric Wong