Rails Lite

Rails isn't magic, but sometimes it feels like it. To get a better understanding of Rails' MVC web framework, I built a "lite" version of Rails from scratch.

Below are some noteworthy facets of this project:

• WEBRick Server: server.rb The server utilizes Ruby's WEBRick library to provide the interface for receiving HTTP requests and sending responses.

• ControllerBase: controller_base.rb ControllerBase takes in HTTPRequest objects to fill out an HTTPResponse object. It sets the content_type and body of the response and returns the response with rendered content.

• Session session.rb Session allows us to set and store HTTPCookies for the user's session.

• Params params.rb Params allows us to receive and parse params from either the router's match of the URL, the query string, or the request body.

• Router router.rb Router keeps track of multiple routes, including the matched URL patterns, the HTTP method (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE), the controller class the route maps to, and the action to be invoked.