+careo | is there a 25 word version of how it differs from thin?
  +tmm1 | good question.. its probably faster, but only because it doesn't have a real http parser like thin
+wyhaines | It is faster.  It's more of an nginx style parser than the mongrel, grammar based parser.
 +careo | so perhaps a better fit for putting an http interface on top of a bunch of already-evented code?
+wyhaines | careo: It depends.  There are very valid arguments for using an RFC-compliant parser a lot of the time.
+wyhaines | But, yeah, sometimes being strictly RFC compliant isn't something that you care about.

sudo gem install eventmachine_httpserver

gem 'eventmachine_httpserver', :require => 'evma_httpserver'

require 'eventmachine'
require 'evma_httpserver'

class MyHttpServer < EM::Connection
  include EM::HttpServer

   def post_init
     super
     no_environment_strings
   end

  def process_http_request
    # the http request details are available via the following instance variables:
    #   @http_protocol
    #   @http_request_method
    #   @http_cookie
    #   @http_if_none_match
    #   @http_content_type
    #   @http_path_info
    #   @http_request_uri
    #   @http_query_string
    #   @http_post_content
    #   @http_headers

    response = EM::DelegatedHttpResponse.new(self)
    response.status = 200
    response.content_type 'text/html'
    response.content = '<center><h1>Hi there</h1></center>'
    response.send_response
  end
end

EM.run{
  EM.start_server '0.0.0.0', 8080, MyHttpServer
}