kevwil / aspen

aspen
    by Kevin Williams
    http://kevwil.github.com/

== DESCRIPTION:

Aspen is a web server engine for JRuby. The design is very similar to Thin,
except using Netty (http://www.jboss.org/netty) for high-speed concurrent sockets
and Scala for the concurrent Actor model.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

* truly concurrent socket model
* Rack interface support

== SYNOPSIS:

  FIXME (code sample of usage)

== REQUIREMENTS:

* JRuby >= 1.2
* Rack

== INSTALL:

  # From Rubyforge ...
  $ (sudo) jruby -S gem install aspen

*OR*

  # From Github ...
  $ (sudo) jruby -S gem sources -a http://gems.github.com (only need to do this once)
  $ (sudo) jruby -S gem install kevwil-aspen

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009 Kevin Williams

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
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