Deployments Overview

This section provides copy‑paste ready recipes for deploying Webrick behind common servers and in containers. The guidance aligns with Webrick’s own middleware (validators, compression, CORS/policies, etc.).

General principles

• One source of compression: Prefer app‑level compression middleware OR proxy compression, not both.

• Pass the original method/headers: Preserve Host, X-Forwarded-*, and query strings exactly.

• Cache correctness: Respect Vary emitted by Webrick; avoid stripping hop‑by‑hop headers at the edge.

• Streaming: Disable proxy buffering for endpoints using Response::stream() to avoid latency.

• Static assets: Let the server serve immutable assets directly with Cache-Control: public, max-age=....