Rails - Sep 2005 - scgi_rails 0.2 with (hopefully) initial win32 support

Hi All,

This is a lightly tested release of my Pure Ruby SCGI Rails runner that should
fix some bugs reported by people and make it work on win32.  Problem is, I
don''t have my (dusty) win32 box working with Ruby yet, so testers are
wanted.  Fixers would be better, but testers will be good too.

Grab it at:
	
	http://www.zedshaw.com/downloads/scgi_rails/scgi_rails-0.2.tar.bz2

and try to break it please.

=== Changes ==
The following things were fixed up:

* Better exception catching so that it won''t crash during errors,
instead logging them to scgi.log
* SIGINT now just logs a shutdown message rather than an exception.
* If your system doesn''t support SIGHUP then you are just warned and
status won''t work.
* Some fixes to the payload parsing so that if someone sends you a massive
netstring it will abort their request.  This comes down to requests of
9999999999 bytes in size will be rejected.  If you need bigger then you also
need an intervention.
* Slight speed improvement by connecting the output of CGI directly to the
socket.  Not sure what this will cause for problems, so testing is in order.


=== WIN32 Warning ==
Since win32 doesn''t support fork, you''re only option is to run
it with:

ruby scgi_rails -e production -D

Otherwise it _should_ work.


=== What Is It? ==
SCGI is a replacement for FastCGI.  The scgi_rails script is a single script
that implements SCGI which competes with most FastCGI tests I can run for
performance.  The scgi_rails script is pure Ruby and very small so people should
be able to steal it and make it faster or more stable.

As usual, your feedback and bug requests are welcome.  Next up is figuring out
how to make this work as a win32 service and to test more heavily on more
platforms.  One big question is how complex Rails applications will work with
Thread based processing.  I know I saw an option for that someplace.

Zed A. Shaw
http://www.zedshaw.com/

hi Zed,I got:

C:\nx\jwc2005>ruby scgi_rails start -e production -D
ERROR: undefined local variable or method `log'' for
#<StartCommand:0x2830098>

2005/9/13, Zed A. Shaw
<zedshaw-dd7LMGGEL7NBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>:
> Hi All,
> 
> This is a lightly tested release of my Pure Ruby SCGI Rails runner that
should fix some bugs reported by people and make it work on win32.  Problem is,
I don''t have my (dusty) win32 box working with Ruby yet, so testers are
wanted.  Fixers would be better, but testers will be good too.

it is a little bug at line 278,change "log" to "$log"
WOW,it is running!

2005/9/13, hui
<fortez-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>:
> hi Zed,I got:
> 
> C:\nx\jwc2005>ruby scgi_rails start -e production -D
> ERROR: undefined local variable or method `log'' for
#<StartCommand:0x2830098>
> 
> 2005/9/13, Zed A. Shaw
<zedshaw-dd7LMGGEL7NBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > This is a lightly tested release of my Pure Ruby SCGI Rails runner
that should fix some bugs reported by people and make it work on win32.  Problem
is, I don''t have my (dusty) win32 box working with Ruby yet, so testers
are wanted.  Fixers would be better, but testers will be good too.
>

C:\nx\jwc2005>ruby scgi_rails start -e production -D
Listening on 0.0.0.0:9999 for SCGI connections.  CTRL-C to stop.

2005/9/13, hui
<fortez-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>:
> it is a little bug at line 278,change "log" to "$log"
> WOW,it is running!

Great, I''ll  update and then work on the forking problem.

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:26:45 +0800
hui <fortez-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> C:\nx\jwc2005>ruby scgi_rails start -e production -D
> Listening on 0.0.0.0:9999 for SCGI connections.  CTRL-C to stop.
> 
> 2005/9/13, hui <fortez-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>:
> > it is a little bug at line 278,change "log" to
"$log"
> > WOW,it is running!
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> Great, I''ll  update and then work on the forking problem.
>
ya gotta hate a forkin problem  ;)