Routing Requests with Ring
Ring aims to abstract the details of HTTP into a simple and modular API that can be used to build a large spectrum of applications. If you’ve developed web applications in Python or Ruby, then you’ll find it similar to the WSGI and Rack libraries found in those languages.[24][25]
Since Ring has become the de facto standard for building web applications, a lot of tools and middleware have been developed around it. While in most cases you won’t need to use Ring directly, it’s useful to have a high-level understanding of its design, as it will help you in developing and troubleshooting your applications.
Ring applications consist of four basic components: the handler, the request, the response, and the middleware ...
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