ranch/manual/ranch_app.md

The Ranch Application

Socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols.

Dependencies

The ranch application has no particular dependency required to start.

It has optional dependencies that are only required when listening for SSL connections. The dependencies are crypto, asn1, public_key and ssl. They are started automatically if they weren't before.

Environment

The ranch application defines one application environment configuration parameter.

• profile (false)
  • When enabled, Ranch will start etop profiling automatically.

You can use the ranch_app:profile_output/0 function to stop profiling and output the results to the files procs.profile and total.profile. Do not use in production.