“Six months ago, the
Ape project
picked up some collaborators with way more Ruby-savvy than I have, and in
short order they moved it to RubyForge and
made it into a Gem.
Which means that anyone who uses RubyGems, i.e. every Ruby developer
in the world, can type

sudo gem install ape

then when they type ape_server, there’s a mongrel and a handy
local Ape running on port 4000. What’s not to like?” source...