Jon Crosby - Middleware

getcloudkit.com
contributor to rack-contrib project
working at Engine Yard on Engine Yard Solo

CGI

Remembering the bad old days...

Things we maybe could pull out of our apps

• authentication
• caching
• openid + oauth

Rack

http://github.com/rack/rack-contrib
based on http model of having layers
based on wsgi (web server gateway interace)
Interesting -- Rack::CSSHTTPRequest
Rack::Cache
Check out his cloudkit - intersting out it builds up rack items w/ oauth, openid items & etc
Middleware announcing itself - Middleware can announce it's presence via env headers
Adding sinatra as middleware before Rails

Comment from Yehuda: they are currently working on rails as middleware stuff