Understanding Ring in Clojure
"Ring is a Clojure web applications library inspired by Python's WSGI and Ruby's Rack. By abstracting the details of HTTP into a simple, unified API, Ring allows web applications to be constructed of modular components that can be shared among a variety of applications, web servers, and web frameworks." | ||
| --- James Reeves | ||
James Reeves is also known as Weavejester; he is the creator and maintainer of Ring and about a billion other Clojure-based technologies (https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring/blob/master/README.md).
In simple terms, Ring handles all the nitty gritty HTTP implementation details, such as HTTP request/response, parameters, cookies, and so on. It abstracts the underlying implementations away from our code, allowing us to focus on writing our application instead of low-level HTTP crud. This abstraction, coupled with the fact that Ring is built on top of the HTTP Servlet specification, enables us to package our...
