[PDF] The RAT Pack: - An early reading intervention program

What is a packpack rat?

pack rat. or pack·rat. Also called trade rat, wood rat. a large, bushy-tailed rodent, Neotoma cinerea, of North America, noted for carrying off small articles to store in its nest. Informal. a person who saves things that are not needed or used but that may have personal or other value.

Is Ratpack asynchronous?

Ratpack is asynchronous from the ground up. The benefit of this model is that synchronous programming is unarguably “simpler”. The drawback of this model, opposed to a non blocking model, is that it demands greater resource usage and yields lower throughput.

What is Ratpack's compositional approach?

This compositional approach is the canonical example of Ratpack’s philosophy of being a toolkit instead of a magical framework. The rest of this chapter discusses aspects of handlers that are beyond HTTP level concerns (e.g. reading headers, sending responses etc.), which is addressed in the HTTP chapter.