Where to insert Rack::Deflater in the rack?

Question

I currently have the following:

use Rack::Rewrite
use Rack::Cache, {:verbose=>true, :metastore=>\"memcached://localhost:11211/rack-cache/meta\", :entitysto         


        

Answer 1

The simplest way to insert it is directly in your config.ru:

require ::File.expand_path('../config/environment',  __FILE__)
use Rack::Deflater
run My::Application

To confirm it is working start up your app and hit it with curl:

curl -i --head "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate" http://localhost:5000

Which should return the headers:

Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip

And a beautifully gzipped response.