https://github.com/macournoyer/thin

A very fast & simple Ruby web server
https://github.com/macournoyer/thin

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rack rails ruby server thin web-server

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A very fast & simple Ruby web server

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/macournoyer/thin
Owner: macournoyer
License: other
Created: 2008-01-19T05:39:04.000Z (about 18 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2025-06-24T04:58:22.000Z (8 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-21T12:42:39.400Z (10 days ago)
Topics: rack, rails, ruby, server, thin, web-server
Language: Ruby
Homepage: https://rubygems.org/gems/thin
Size: 1.96 MB
Stars: 2,277
Watchers: 49
Forks: 350
Open Issues: 21
Releases: 3
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: license.md

Thin

A small and fast Ruby web server

Installation

gem install thin

Or add thin to your Gemfile:

gem 'thin'

Usage

A +thin+ script offers an easy way to start your Rack application:

thin start

Browse the example directory for sample applications.

CLI

Use a rackup (config.ru) file and bind to localhost port 8080:

thin -R config.ru -a 127.0.0.1 -p 8080 start

Store the server process ID, log to a file and daemonize:

thin -p 9292 -P tmp/pids/thin.pid -l logs/thin.log -d start

Thin is quite flexible in that many options can be specified at the command line (see thin -h for more).

Configuration files

You can create a configuration file using thin config -C config/thin.yml.

You can then use it with all commands, such as: thin start -C config/thin.yml.

Here is an example config file:

--- 
user: www-data
group: www-data
pid: tmp/pids/thin.pid
timeout: 30
wait: 30
log: log/thin.log
max_conns: 1024
require: []
environment: production
max_persistent_conns: 512
servers: 1
threaded: true
no-epoll: true
daemonize: true
socket: tmp/sockets/thin.sock
chdir: /path/to/your/apps/root
tag: a-name-to-show-up-in-ps aux

License

Released under the Ruby License, the 2-clause BSDL and the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 (or later). You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of any of these licenses.

Credits

The parser was originally from Mongrel http://mongrel.rubyforge.org by Zed Shaw.
Mongrel is copyright 2007 Zed A. Shaw and contributors. It is licensed under
the Ruby license and the GPL2.

Thin is copyright Marc-Andre Cournoyer macournoyer@gmail.com

Get help at http://groups.google.com/group/thin-ruby/
Report bugs at https://github.com/macournoyer/thin/issues
and major security issues directly to me at macournoyer@gmail.com.

Owner metadata

Name: Marc-André Cournoyer
Login: macournoyer
Email:
Kind: user
Description: I enjoy walks in the park, VMs, neural nets, servers, anything with a loop.
Website: http://macournoyer.com
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
Twitter: macournoyer
Company: @Shopify
Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/22?v=4
Repositories: 69
Last ynced at: 2025-09-07T23:54:13.516Z
Profile URL: https://github.com/macournoyer

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gem.coop: thin

A thin and fast web server

Homepage: https://github.com/macournoyer/thin
Documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/thin/
Licenses: GPL-2.0-or-later,Ruby
Latest release: 2.0.1 (published 8 months ago)
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