Ferret talk - Nov 2007 - Question on Deploying a Ferret DRb server

(Sorry if some people see this twice. I originally posted this question
from ruby-forum.com, but didn''t realize that the Ferret forum was a
mirror and that I actually wasn''t a member.)

Anyway,

I''ve read all the documentation I could find, and read most of this
forum, but I''m a still a little confused on running a ferret DRb
server.

All the examples seem to be from the point of view of running the DRb
server from within the context of a RoR web site. I''d like to consider
the following scenario:

Server 1: front-end web server + mongrel cluster
Server 2: Ferret DRb server
Server 3: MySQL database

My question is related to Server 2? Exactly what is it that I have to
deploy to that computer to have a Ferret DRb server? I understand that
on Server 1, ferret_server.yml should have a production entry that
points to Server 2, and that all the models on Server 1 need :remote =>
:true. But what lives on server 2? Do I just deploy the models folder,
the config folder and the scripts folder? Or do I deploy an entire copy
of the web site code?

I haven''t found the answer to that in anything I''ve read, so I
thought
I''d ask here.

Thanks,
Sheldon Maloff
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Hi!

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:07:00PM +0100, Sheldon Maloff
wrote:
> (Sorry if some people see this twice. I originally posted this question
> from ruby-forum.com, but didn''t realize that the Ferret forum was
a
> mirror and that I actually wasn''t a member.)
> 
> Anyway,
> 
> I''ve read all the documentation I could find, and read most of
this
> forum, but I''m a still a little confused on running a ferret DRb
server.
> 
> All the examples seem to be from the point of view of running the DRb
> server from within the context of a RoR web site. I''d like to
consider
> the following scenario:
> 
> Server 1: front-end web server + mongrel cluster
> Server 2: Ferret DRb server
> Server 3: MySQL database
> 
> My question is related to Server 2? Exactly what is it that I have to
> deploy to that computer to have a Ferret DRb server? I understand that
> on Server 1, ferret_server.yml should have a production entry that
> points to Server 2, and that all the models on Server 1 need :remote =>
> :true. But what lives on server 2? Do I just deploy the models folder,
> the config folder and the scripts folder? Or do I deploy an entire copy
> of the web site code?
The DRb server needs at least access to your model classes, I think
the easiest way is to just deploy a copy of your whole Rails app to
the DRb server.
Of course you won''t need your views there, but I''d find it
easier to
just deploy the whole app to a second place with capistrano than 
manually ripping the parts needed for DRb off.

Btw, you don''t need :remote => true anymore with the current release
of
aaf. Just configure your ferret_server.yml for production environment.

Cheers,
Jens


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Jens Kraemer wrote:
> Of course you won''t need your views there, but I''d find
it easier to
> just deploy the whole app to a second place with capistrano than
> manually ripping the parts needed for DRb off.
Thanks Jens. That''s what I understood by reading everything I could. I 
just wanted confirmation that that was the recommended practice.

Keep up the excellent work on AAF.

Cheers,
Sheldon Maloff
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