Mongrel users - Dec 2007 - Integration of Mongrel with RHEL, Fedora and derivatives

Hi gurus,

here at Scuola IaD we have some Rails applications in production, I''m
the sysadmin so I made a script for governing mongrel instances via
the service command and integrating their management in a RHEL
environment. This script, available with more information here:

http://bitsandchaos.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/mongrel-integration-for-rhel-fedora-and-derivatives-new-release/

has these features:

- it does not use mongrel_cluster; instead, each Rails application is
described by a text file, that specifies also on which ports it should
listen to;
- it spawns a mongrel_rails instance for each port and each application;
- it can selectively stop/start one application, or all of them;
- it deals with the pid stale file problem, ensuring they are deleted
when it''s needed;
- it allows for a finer grain of security, as each Rails application
can be owned by a different user;

in fact we are using this script for also governing mongrel instances
via monit, and it''s totally compatible with RHEL 4/5, Fedora and
derivatives.

I''m happy if someone will use it, and more happy if someone will take
a look at it to suggest improvements and corrections.

Quoting Paolo Campegiani <paolo.campegiani at
gmail.com>:
> here at Scuola IaD we have some Rails applications in production,
I''m
> the sysadmin so I made a script for governing mongrel instances via
> the service command and integrating their management in a RHEL
> environment. This script, available with more information here:
> 
>
http://bitsandchaos.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/mongrel-integration-for-rhel-fedora-and-derivatives-new-release/
> 
Paolo, I hung on to this email and finally got the time to download
and try your init script. Fabulous! thanks for making this available
to the community.