Raphters: A web framework for C

Wynn sat down with Nick Quaranto at Red Dirt Ruby Conference to talk about Gemcutter, RubyGems.org, and how to get started creating your own Ruby gem.

For those that thought C had been delegated to the internals of your mobile devices or favorite database engine, Daniel Waterworth wants to string you up by the Raphters.

Raphters is a web framework written in C. Yes you heard that right, a shiny new framework for the web written in everybody’s favorite close-to-the-metal programming language. The project gets its name from RAPHT, a pattern that extends MVC that aims for greater security and flexibility:

Resources include things served up to clients like a database or API.Actions provide ways to interact with a Resource.Processors transform data.Handlers provide the entry point for a request.Templates render data.

A simple Hello World example to demostrate the patter might look something like:

#include "raphters.h"START_HANDLER (simple, GET, "simple", res, 0, matches) { response_add_header(res, "content-type", "text/html"); response_write(res, "hello world");} END_HANDLERSTART_HANDLER (default_handler, GET, "", res, 0, matches) { response_add_header(res, "content-type", "text/html"); response_write(res, "default page");} END_HANDLERint main() { add_handler(simple); add_handler(default_handler); serve_forever(); return 0;}

If you’re a C developer looking for speed (and security) you might give Raphters a look for your next web project.

[Source on GitHub]