Announcing cgid

This post is an announcement of cgid .

Over the past week I developed a small UCSPI based single-file CGI server. The usage is very simple, due to the nature of the tool. Here’s a quick example of how I use it:

#!/bin/nosh tcp-socket-listen 127.0.0.1 6000 tcp-socket-accept --no-delay cgid www/cgi-bin/my-cgi-script

If you don’t know anything about UCSPI, this will look like nonsense to you. I have a post that I’ll publish later this week about UCSPI, so you can wait for that, or you can search for it and find lots of documents about it already.

As a side note, cgid was written in Rust. I have a post about Rust itself in the queue, but I think discussing the “release process” of a binary tool like cgid at release time is sensible. The procedure for releasing went something like this:

git tag v0.1.0 -m 'Release v0.1.0' # release to crates.io cargo package cargo publish cargo build --release # fiddle with github webpage to put binaries on the release

This is a joke compared to the spoiling I’ve had from Dist::Zilla, which is what I use when releasing packages to CPAN. At some point I’d like to automate Rust releases as much as Rik has automated releasing to CPAN.

I’ll keep my eye out for more things that deserve to be written in Rust, as I enjoyed the process, but I expect that ideas which deserve to be written in Rust are few and far between, for me. It is pretty cool that basically not knowing Rust, I successfully implemented a tool that doesn’t exist anywhere in less than two weeks.

Posted Mon, Feb 8, 2016

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