Cerise 1.0

Cerise app server is a Ruby web/application server.
Cerise follows the same general pattern as J2EE application servers, but written in the Ruby programming language and providing a very flexible, elegant, lightweight, and developer friendly environment for building web applications.
Main features:
- A flexible request handler framework
- An HTML template system styled after Amrita, with a few extra features
- Support for validating forms and displaying errors
- Comprehensive error reporting
- Database connection pools
- User and role based access controls
- Runtime reloading of changes without a server restart
- User sessions to maintain state across requests
- Flexible configuration files written in Ruby
- Internal HTTP 1.1 server
- Platform independent, runs on all the platforms that Ruby runs on which includes most flavors of Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, etc.
- Support for publishing Ruby objects as SOAP services
- Sending email, including STARTTLS support
Enhancements:
- In addition to bug fixes, this release contains a number of major changes and requires Ruby 1.8.3 (although at least one person has gotten it running on 1.8.2).