Ruby AMQP under Thin HTTP server - ruby

Question

I'm running a simple thin server, that publish some messages to different queues, the code looks like :
require "rubygems"
require "thin"
require "amqp"
require 'msgpack'
app = Proc.new do |env|
params = Rack::Request.new(env).params
command = params['command'].strip rescue "no command"
number = params['number'].strip rescue "no number"
p command
p number
AMQP.start do
if command =~ /\A(create|c|r|register)\z/i
MQ.queue("create").publish(number)
elsif m = (/\A(Answer|a)\s?(\d+|\d+-\d+)\z/i.match(command))
MQ.queue("answers").publish({:number => number,:answer => "answer" }.to_msgpack )
end
end
[200, {'Content-Type' => "text/plain"} , command ]
end
Rack::Handler::Thin.run(app, :Port => 4001)
Now when I run the server, and do something like http://0.0.0.0:4001/command=r&number=123123123
I'm always getting duplicate outputs, something like :
"no command"
"no number"
"no command"
"no number"
The first thing is why I'm getting like duplicate requests ? is it something has to do with the browser ? since when I use curl I'm not having the same behavior , and the second thing why I can't get the params ?
Any tips about the best implementation for such a server would be highly appreciated
Thanks in advance .

Answer 1

The second request comes from the browser looking for the favicon.ico. You can inspect the requests by adding the following code in your handler:
params = Rack::Request.new(env).params
p env # add this line to see the request in your console window
Alternatively you could use Sinatra:
require "rubygems"
require "amqp"
require "msgpack"
require "sinatra"
get '/:command/:number' do
command = params['command'].strip rescue "no command"
number = params['number'].strip rescue "no number"
p command
p number
AMQP.start do
if command =~ /\A(create|c|r|register)\z/i
MQ.queue("create").publish(number)
elsif m = (/\A(Answer|a)\s?(\d+|\d+-\d+)\z/i.match(command))
MQ.queue("answers").publish({:number => number,:answer => "answer" }.to_msgpack )
nd
end
return command
end
and then run ruby the_server.rb at the command line to start the http server.