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Ruby API

• Frequently Asked Questions: Have a question? Start here maybe!
• Basic Usage: Simple, easy-to-use API for launching Reel directly from Ruby
• Subclassing Reel::Server: Create your own HTTP server from a Reel::Server base (Advanced Usage)
• Requests: Handling incoming requests and stream their request bodies
• Responses: Sending responses back to clients, potentially streaming data in the process
• WebSockets: Information for using Reel's native Websockets support
• HTTPS: Transport Layer Encryption support

Debugging

• Spy: Snoop on traffic to Reel servers

Leveraging Celluloid

• Connection Management and Multithreading: How Reel manages connections and how to hand them off to other threads/actors with Reel::Connection#detach
• Fault Tolerance: Use Celluloid's built-in supervision support to handle server crashes

Rack Adapter

• Reel::Rack Wiki: Information about using Reel with Rack, including running Rails on Reel!

Webmachine Adapter

• Webmachine Adapter: examples and usage for running Webmachine applications running on Reel