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Followers0

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webrick vs puma: What are the differences?

Developers describe webrick as "WEBrick is an HTTP server toolkit that can be configured as an HTTPS server". WEBrick is an HTTP server toolkit that can be configured as an HTTPS server, a proxy server, and a virtual-host server. On the other hand, puma is detailed as "Puma is a simple, fast, threaded, and highly concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby/Rack applications". Puma is a simple, fast, threaded, and highly concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby/Rack applications. Puma is intended for use in both development and production environments. It's great for highly concurrent Ruby implementations such as Rubinius and JRuby as well as as providing process worker support to support CRuby well.

webrick and puma belong to "RubyGems Packages" category of the tech stack.

webrick and puma are both open source tools. puma with 6.74K GitHub stars and 1.24K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than webrick with 16 GitHub stars and 2 GitHub forks.

puma Stats

Dependent Packages Counts - 425

webrick Stats

Dependent Packages Counts - 71

puma Vulnerabilities

Puma HTTP Request/Response Smuggling vulnerability
Critical

Puma vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling
Critical

Puma used with Rails may lead to Information Exposure
High

webrick Vulnerabilities

WEBrick Denial of Service Vulnerability
High

WEBrick RCE Vulnerability
High

WEBRick vulnerable to HTTP Request/Response Smuggling
High

puma Release info

Latest version

6.4.1

BSD-3-Clause

webrick Release info

Latest version

1.8.1

BSD-2-Clause

What is puma?

Puma is a simple, fast, threaded, and highly concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby/Rack applications. Puma is intended for use in both development and production environments. It's great for highly concurrent Ruby implementations such as Rubinius and JRuby as well as as providing process worker support to support CRuby well.

What is webrick?

WEBrick is an HTTP server toolkit that can be configured as an HTTPS server, a proxy server, and a virtual-host server.

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What are some alternatives to puma and webrick?

rake

Rake is a Make-like program implemented in Ruby. Tasks and dependencies are specified in standard Ruby syntax. Rake has the following features: * Rakefiles (rake's version of Makefiles) are completely defined in standard Ruby syntax. No XML files to edit. No quirky Makefile syntax to worry about (is that a tab or a space?) * Users can specify tasks with prerequisites. * Rake supports rule patterns to synthesize implicit tasks. * Flexible FileLists that act like arrays but know about manipulating file names and paths. * Supports parallel execution of tasks.

rspec

BDD for Ruby.

pry

An IRB alternative and runtime developer console.

rails

Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web framework optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It encourages beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.

simplecov

Code coverage for Ruby 1.9+ with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites.

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puma vs webrick

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