= Halcyon JSON Application Framework

A JSON Web Application Framework for developing lightweight applications
interfaced via JSON-encoded HTTP requests. This is ideal for back end
applications serving functionality for other applications.

== On Rack

Halcyon is based off of Rack. Rejoice, Rack is amazing.

== Development

Halcyon is currently undergoing major refactoring and restructuring. The API is
subject to change up until the official 0.5.0 release.

== Installation

A Gem of Halcyon is available.  You can install it with:

  $ sudo gem install halcyon

Alternatively, you can install the latest development efforts from the git
repository, located at http://github.com/mtodd/halcyon:

  $ git clone git://github.com/mtodd/halcyon.git
  $ cd halcyon; rake install

Don't forget to install the JSON gem for improved performance:

  $ sudo gem install json

== Usage

Usage instructions will be updated when the application generation code is
completed.

== Contact

Please mail bugs, suggestions and patches to <mailto:chiology@gmail.com>.

You are also welcome to join the #halcyon channel on irc.freenode.net.

Our website is up so stop by and check out what's going down. Our address is
http://halcyon.rubyforge.org/. On there you will find information about our
mailing list as well, so do stop by.

== Thanks To

* Bill Marquette, typo correction, reviewing examples
* Elliott Cable, missing dependency, Thin testing
* ramstedt, Mongrel on JRuby port numericality issue (#14)
* Ben Simpson, PHP Client bug fixes
* Eivind Uggedal, dependencies for Router support of resources

== Links

Halcyon:: <http://halcyon.rubyforge.org/>
Aurora:: <http://aurora.rubyforge.org/>

Rack:: <http://rack.rubyforge.org/>
JSON:: <http://json.rubyforge.org/>

Matt Todd:: <http://maraby.org/>