A Reverse Proxy for Rack

This is a simple reverse proxy for Rack that pretty heavily rips off Rack Forwarder. It is not meant for production systems (although it may work), as the webserver fronting your app is generally much better at this sort of thing.

Installation

The gem is available on rubygems. Assuming you have a recent version of Rubygems you should just be able to install it via:

gem install rack-reverse-proxy

For your Gemfile use:

gem "rack-reverse-proxy", require: "rack/reverse_proxy"

Usage

Rules can be a regex or a string. If a regex is used, you can use the subcaptures in your forwarding url by denoting them with a $.

Right now if more than one rule matches any given route, it throws an exception for an ambiguous match. This will probably change later. If no match is found, the call is forwarded to your application.

Below is an example for configuring the middleware:

require 'rack/reverse_proxy'

use Rack::ReverseProxy do
  # Set :preserve_host to true globally (default is true already)
  reverse_proxy_options preserve_host: true

  # Forward the path /test* to http://example.com/test*
  reverse_proxy '/test', 'http://example.com/'

  # Forward the path /foo/* to http://example.com/bar/*
  reverse_proxy /^\/foo(\/.*)$/, 'http://example.com/bar$1', username: 'name', password: 'basic_auth_secret'
end

app = proc do |env|
  [ 200, {'Content-Type' => 'text/plain'}, "b" ]
end
run app

reverse_proxy_options sets global options for all reverse proxies. Available options are:

:preserve_host Set to false to omit Host headers
:username username for basic auth
:password password for basic auth
:matching is a global only option, if set to :first the first matched url will be requested (no ambigous error). Default: :all.
:timeout seconds to timout the requests
:force_ssl redirects to ssl version, if not already using it (requires :replace_response_host). Default: false.

Sample usage in a Ruby on Rails app

Rails 3 or less:

# config/application.rb
config.middleware.insert_before(Rack::Lock, Rack::ReverseProxy) do
  reverse_proxy_options preserve_host: true
  reverse_proxy '/wiki', 'http://wiki.example.com/'
end

Rails 4+ or if you use config.threadsafe, you'll need to insert_before(Rack::Runtime, Rack::ReverseProxy) as Rack::Lock does not exist when config.allow_concurrency == true:

# config/application.rb
config.middleware.insert_before(Rack::Runtime, Rack::ReverseProxy) do
  reverse_proxy_options preserve_host: true
  reverse_proxy '/wiki', 'http://wiki.example.com/'
end

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

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