Raze

Raze for days.

NOTICE: I am archiving this project. I have since built something even better which I've been using for a couple years (However, it isn't open sourced)

Raze is a lightweight HTTP framework with a focus on building APIs and containerized services. If you want a more general purpose framwork with static file serving, check out Kemal.

Installation

Add this to your application's shard.yml:

dependencies:
  raze:
    github: samueleaton/raze

Usage

require "raze"

get "/hello" do |ctx|
  "hello, world!"
end

Raze.run

Raze takes a modular-first approach to middlewares

require "raze"

# Define middlewares
class Authenticator < Raze::Handler
  def call(ctx, done)
    puts "Authenticate here..."
    done.call
  end
end

class DDoSBlocker < Raze::Handler
  def call(ctx, done)
    puts "Prevent DDoS attack here..."
    done.call
  end
end

class UserFetcher < Raze::Handler
  def call(ctx, done)
    # Fetch user record from DB here...
    ctx.state["user_name"] = "Sam"
    done.call
  end
end

# Define routes, attach middlewares
get "/api/**", [Authenticator.new, DDoSBlocker.new]

get "/api/user/:user_id", UserFetcher.new do |ctx|
  "hello, #{ctx.state["user_name"]}!"
end

Raze.run

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

TODO

Core

• Be able to run a stack of middlewares before the static file handler
• Remove all global scoping (e.g. get "/" -> Raze.get "/")
• Live reload functionality for development
• Be able to define middlewares globally (for all routes)

Middlewares

• Urlencoded and JSON body parser
• Multipart/form-data body parser
• Static asset caching
  • should take a cache time interval and be able to take a path match regex
• Route caching
  • be able to cache the response for a route for a predetermined time interval
• Favicon caching
• CORS response header
• Access logger
• Session tracking
• Proxy middleware
• Security Headers
  • e.g. Node's Helmet

Contributors

• Sam Eaton - creator, maintainer