If you find this interesting, you might also be interested in DripDrop( https://github.com/andrewvc/dripdrop https://github.com/andrewvc/dripdrop ), which is an

If you find this interesting, you might also be interested in DripDrop( https://github.com/andrewvc/dripdrop https://github.com/andrewvc/dripdrop ), which is an alternate approach to the fusion of ZeroMQ, HTTP, and WebSockets. It's not a general purpose web server, but targets message passing applications that must move between transports. For instance Browser <-> Web Socket <-> ZMQ is easily possible in it. It's based on ruby eventmachine (no external daemons needed), and lets you seamlessly pass messages between all three protocols, leveraging the differences of each in interesting ways. Additionally, it's got tools to help you build isolated components that communicate via messaging only (preferably ZMQ). If you keep this in mind from the start, it can substantially help when it comes to scaling out. Lastly, we're working on Mongrel2 support as a front end.