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A high-performance web server for Ruby, supporting HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and TLS.

16 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 1 story, 15 comments · first 2018-10-15 · latest 2025-03-15

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  1. …Checkout the async gem, including async-http, async-websockets, and the Falcon web server. https://github.com/socketry/falcon
    comment by bradgessler · 2025-03-15 · in RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
  2. …not having a better concurrency story, like say golang. [0]: https://github.com/socketry/async [1]: https://github.com/socketry/falcon
    comment by nitely · 2025-02-28 · in There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load balancer
  3. falcon is worth a look https://github.com/socketry/falcon
    comment by wutwutwat · 2024-11-07 · in Understanding Ruby 3.3 Concurrency: A Comprehensive Guide
  4. I'm optimistic about Ruby's async story with the work Samuel Williams has been doing. https://github.com/socketry/falcon is the tip of the iceberg, which is built on top of https://github.com/socketry/protocol-http2 and a not of other…
    comment by bradgessler · 2024-10-07 · in What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
  5. > I happen to be using Falcon heh I'm always annoyed by this unfortunate name clash: https://github.com/socketry/falcon
    comment by lloeki · 2023-04-26 · in Introduction to HTTP Multipart
  6. …of async or blocking vs non-blocking IO throughout the stack. Maybe the same for Puma? [0]: https://github.com/socketry/falcon
    comment by xtagon · 2022-10-22 · in Puma 6: Sunflower
  7. …are to build the necessary abstractions on top of them that would make Rails more concurrent. https://github.com/socketry/falcon is an interesting project, but again, it's not clear how difficult it would be deploying a Rails app on top of…
    comment by bradgessler · 2022-10-12 · in Pitchfork: Rack HTTP server for shared-nothing architecture
  8. …View Components[2] and Tailwind make me really please with the way Rails is heading right now. 1. https://github.com/socketry/falcon 2. https://github.com/github/view_component
    comment by Lio · 2021-11-19 · in Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?
  9. This is all new to me as well, but the project mentioned the Falcon web server( https://github.com/socketry/falcon ). The documentation for Falcon mentions using it with rails: https://socketry.github.io/falcon/guides/rails-integration/i...…
    comment by adverbly · 2021-10-30 · in Async Ruby
  10. …PRs, maybe you want to use Ruby-2.7 first. I use https://puma.io/ , that scales well enough for me. https://github.com/socketry/falcon#readme is faster with build-in HTTP/2 support but harder to setup in my opinion, e.g. requires SSL…
    comment by mtmail · 2021-03-05 · in Ask HN: Coming back to Web/Ruby/Rails since 2012. Help?
  11. …imagine, deploying a new technology to production can have issues :p I've been dogfooding falcon ( https://github.com/socketry/falcon ) for the past week, which is built on top of async/Ruby. The HN hug of death + Reddit hug of death is a…
    comment by ioquatix · 2020-04-17 · in Ruby Concurrency Final Report
  12. …- https://github.com/socketry/async "An awesome asynchronous event-driven reactor for Ruby" - https://github.com/socketry/falcon "A high-performance web server for Ruby, supporting HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and TLS" I can recommend following him on…
    comment by thibaut_barrere · 2020-04-17 · in Ruby Concurrency Final Report
  13. Or the Ruby webserver https://github.com/socketry/falcon
    comment by swrobel · 2020-04-16 · in Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization
  14. …tricky with Ruby but it provides the appropriate callbacks and the documentation is reasonable: https://github.com/socketry/falcon/blob/940c25f4d19e9ad900ce... > How do you test TLS? I specifically solved this problem by using a…
    comment by ioquatix · 2018-10-15 · in How HTTP/2 Pushes the Web
  15. So, I implemented https://github.com/socketry/falcon - a HTTP/1, HTTP/2 web server, including client. HTTP/2 in my opinion is simply a better protocol. It's more robust, and it has a binary framing layer which implements connection…
    comment by ioquatix · 2018-10-15 · in How HTTP/2 Pushes the Web