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+title: Home
+inMenu: false
+directoryName: Home
+---
+h1. What is Mongrel?
+
+Mongrel is a fast HTTP library and server for Ruby that is intended for hosting
+Ruby web applications of any kind using plain HTTP rather than FastCGI or SCGI.
+It is framework agnostic and already supports "Ruby On
+Rails":http://www.rubyonrails.org, "Og+Nitro":http://www.nitroproject.org/, 
+"Camping":http://camping.rubyforge.org/files/README.html, and
+"IOWA":http://enigo.com/projects/iowa/tutorial/what_is_it.html frameworks.
+
+@You need Ruby 1.8.4 just like the gem says you do.@
+
+
+h2. Getting Started
+
+The easiest way to get started with Mongrel is to install it via RubyGems
+and then run a Ruby on Rails application.  You can do this easily:
+
+ $ sudo gem install mongrel
+ $ cd myrailsapp
+ $ mongrel_rails start -d
+
+Which runs Mongrel in the background.  You can stop it with:
+
+ $ mongrel_rails stop
+
+And you're all set.  There's quite a few options you can set for the
+start command.  Use the *mongrel_rails start -h* to see them all.
+
+h2. Win32 Support
+
+Win32 is fully supported by Mongrel with services and CPU
+affinity support.  You should read the "Win32 HOWTO":docs/win32.html
+for information on getting started.
+
+The main thing with Win32 support is that there is no *fork* 
+API for Ruby, so you have to use the services features to
+get persistent servers running.  You can get this services
+support by doing:
+
+  > gem install mongrel_service
+
+And then just run @mongrel_rails@ to see what @services::@ commands
+are available.
+
+
+h1. Next Steps
+
+Now that you're a Mongrel user, there's some thing you should
+do to educate yourself:
+
+* "Join the mailing list":http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users 
+* "Read the documentation":docs/index.html
+* Learn to use --help when you want to know what Mongrel commands can do.
+
+The last one is important.  A lot of effort went into making
+Mongrel as self-documenting as possible.  Before you hit the
+mailing list asking how to do something, try passing that
+command --help and see if it tells you.  If it's still not 
+clear then ask away.
+