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

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

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.

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Eric Wong