Cerise 1.1

Cerise is a Web and application server that follows the same general pattern as J2EE application servers.
Cerise provides 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:
- Allows configuration of the logger in server.cfg.
- It adds Ruby-style # {...} interpolation to template attributes.
- The client IP and port are available in HTTP requests.