pete0emerson/hello_world

Hello World ... using a mess of "new to me" technologies

I'm going to write "Hello World" ... using a mess of different technologies, just for the fun of it.

Here are the technologies I expect to leverage, with little or no experience with them:

• ubuntu - The Linux distribution - http://www.ubuntu.com/
• python - The programming language - http://www.python.org/
• paste and nose - for testing - http://webpy.org/cookbook/testing_with_paste_and_nose
• sphinx - for documentation - http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
• redis - NoSQL database - http://redis.io
• zeromq - easy component communication library - http://www.zeromq.org
• web.py - simple web framework - http://webpy.org
• gunicorn - WSGI HTTP server - http://gunicorn.org/ http://nicolas314.wordpress.com/tag/web-py/
• nginx - HTTP server - http://www.nginx.org/

The server

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=natty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.04"

Server Configuration

Run the included server_configuration.sh script. This will take a bare server, bring it up to date with the latest Ubuntu packages, and then install the necessary software listed above.

Current status

There is a very simple API that replies with Hello, world! to every request, and a nose test to go along with it:

$ python api.py
http://0.0.0.0:8080/

# In another window ...

$ curl localhost:8080/test
Hello, world!

# In the original window ...
127.0.0.1:63077 - - [21/Oct/2011 00:00:00] "HTTP/1.1 GET /test" - 200 OK

$ WEBPY_ENV=test nosetests
.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 0.174s

OK