reef

Celluloid's Reel, expanded into a framework foundation module. This experimental module ought to both extend Reel, and your own framework or application; it is intended to form a base for diverse addons to Reel, both over and under the request: working with Requests and/or the Responses within Reel.

Comparable functionality would be Rack's middleware for its behavior toward Reel as an extendible handler, and Sinatra / Octarine / Padrino for the HTTP DSL aspect, without those libraries, and using the ultra-fast Reel server.

Intended functionalities to start with:

• Code Reloading in development environments
• Session handling
• HTTP DSL, with:
  • Multiple Routes per end-point
  • Segmenting base routes into multiple handler classes ( i.e. /path/* goes to special handler where /path/endpoint is handled as "/endpoint" )
• GZIP compression of public/ and dynamically created responses from server
• public/ handling
• support something like --daemonize, despite possible limitations ( if platform supports )
• rolling restarts and code reloading in production environments
• wrap WebSockets within endpoints without requiring different port or Reel instance