Rack (web Server Interface)
Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web servers, web frameworks, and software in between (the so-called middleware) into a single method call.
Rack is used by almost all Ruby web frameworks and libraries, such as Ruby On Rails and Sinatra. It is available as a Ruby Gem.
Rack has already inspired a JavaScript framework (jackjs) and a Perl one (Plack), a Common Lisp project called clack, and has resulted in the Ruby developer quasi-standard of "rack-compliant".
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