1. Welcome
  2. Getting Started [+/-]
    1. Installing from RubyGems
    2. Installing from GitHub.com
    3. Installing with Sake
  3. The Basics [+/-]
    1. Hello World
      1. Application Generation Options
    2. Paths
    3. Environments
    4. Rake
  4. Configuration [+/-]
    1. Configatron
    2. Initializers
      1. Gems
      2. Mime-Types
  5. Routing [+/-]
    1. Default Routes
    2. Named Routes
    3. RESTful/Resource Routes
    4. Nested Resource Routes
    5. Regex Routes
    6. Wildcard Routes
    7. Blocks in Routes
    8. Redirecting
    9. Error Handling
    10. Deferred? Routes
    11. Misc. Routing
  6. Controllers [+/-]
    1. Actions
    2. Headers/Status
    3. Handling Content Types
    4. Filters
    5. Helpers
    6. Layouts
    7. Tell Messaging
    8. Redirecting
    9. Rendering
      1. Engines
        1. Erubis
        2. XML Builder
        3. Extending
          1. Case Study: PDF Writer
      2. Types
        1. :action
        2. :text
        3. :inline
        4. :xml
        5. :url
        6. :partial
        7. :template
        8. :public
        9. Extending
          1. Case Study: PDF Writer
  7. Views [+/-]
    1. Helpers
    2. Layouts
    3. Assets Host
    4. Assets Management
    5. Form Builders
  8. Sessions [+/-]
    1. Session Store API
  9. Request/Response [+/-]
    1. Cookies
  10. Testing [+/-]
    1. RSpec
    2. Test::Unit::TestCase
  11. Porlets [+/-]
    1. Developing
    2. Testing
    3. Packaging
    4. Using
  12. Plugins [+/-]
    1. Extending
      1. Case Study: PDF Writer
  13. Deploying [+/-]
    1. Thin
    2. Passenger (mod_rails)
    3. Joyent Accelerator
  14. Mack More [+/-]
    1. mack-active_record
    2. mack-asset_packager
    3. mack-caching
    4. mack-data_factory
    5. mack-data_mapper
    6. mack-distributed
    7. mack-encryption
    8. mack-facets
    9. mack-haml
    10. mack-javascript
    11. mack-localization
    12. mack-markaby
    13. mack-notifier
    14. mack-orm
    15. mack-pdf_writer
  15. Rails to Mack Cheat Sheet
  16. Contributing
  17. APIs [+/-]

Thin

Thin is a very fast and efficient web server that supports Mack very, very well.

To Mack with Thin is very easy.

$ mackery server

If you now point your browser to http://localhost:3000 you'll have access to your Mack application.

Changing the port and the environment is as simple as a few flags:

$ mackery server -e production -p 80

The mackery server command will forward any flags on to Thin under the covers, so you can easily configure it.

If you'd like to make configuration even easier, or if you have really complicated configuration settings. You can create a YAML file and pass it in with -C flag:

$ mackery server -C config/thin.yml
# config/thin.yml
--- 
pid: tmp/pids/thin.pid
log: log/thin.log
timeout: 30
max_conns: 1024
port: 3000
max_persistent_conns: 512
environment: production
daemonize: true
address: 0.0.0.0
servers: 3
This guide was written for Mack version 0.8.2