Thin GZIP decoder on the local machine

Question

I am using a thin Rails server and I want to send some gzipped JSON data, but in localhost it crashes with a MultiJson error (unknown characters).

How to enable gzip support for local thin use without nginx or apache?

Error text:

15:46:09 web.1 | Started PUT "/api/me" for 192.168.192.8 at 2011-11-25 15:46:09 +0600 15:46:09 web.1 | Error occurred while parsing request parameters. 15:46:09 web.1 | Contents: 15:46:09 web.1 | 15:46:09 web.1 | 15:46:09 web.1 | MultiJson::DecodeError (743: unexpected token at ''): 

Answer 1

The rack includes middleware called Rack::Deflater that you want.

enable config.middleware.use Rack::Deflater in config/application.rb

Answer 2

As rack middleware, I think Rack :: Deflater will work with other WebServers

If you serve assets through Rails, do the following:

config /application.rb

 config.middleware.insert_before ActionDispatch::Static, Rack::Deflater 

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