Rails - Jul 2006 - Replace Pound/Pens/Balance with Ruby alternative

Right now you can use either Pens/Balance/Pound to put in front of some 
Mongrels and it works really good (easy to setup too!).  I got to 
thinking, would it be possible to mimic what Pens/Balance/Pound does in 
pure Ruby (yeah, I know the answer is yes)?  I guess I''m looking for a 
starting point.  Does one simply write an HTTP listener that then 
redirects the calls to Mongrel?  Is there a project already doing this?

Thanks for the help.

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Why would you want to rewrite a mature, debugged,
efficient C program in Ruby?

I understand the benefits (Ruby accessibility, no
additional compilation required, etc.), but can''t
see them outweighing the disadvantages (efficiency
and maturity).

On Jul 18, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Wesley Lamb wrote:
> Right now you can use either Pens/Balance/Pound to put in front of  
> some
> Mongrels and it works really good (easy to setup too!).  I got to
> thinking, would it be possible to mimic what Pens/Balance/Pound  
> does in
> pure Ruby (yeah, I know the answer is yes)?  I guess I''m looking
for a
> starting point.  Does one simply write an HTTP listener that then
> redirects the calls to Mongrel?  Is there a project already doing  
> this?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
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Tom Mornini wrote:
> I understand the benefits (Ruby accessibility, no
> additional compilation required, etc.), but can''t
> see them outweighing the disadvantages (efficiency
> and maturity).
Pound/Pen/Balance doesn''t work on Windows.  Yes, there are
alternatives,
but I''d like to have a simple way of deploying my apps to ANY platform 
without much fuss.  Speed/Efficiency mean nothing to me as my apps are 
internal to a company and used by less than 50 people througout the day.



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On Jul 18, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Wesley Lamb wrote:
> Tom Mornini wrote:
>> I understand the benefits (Ruby accessibility, no
>> additional compilation required, etc.), but can''t
>> see them outweighing the disadvantages (efficiency
>> and maturity).
>
> Pound/Pen/Balance doesn''t work on Windows.  Yes, there are  
> alternatives,
> but I''d like to have a simple way of deploying my apps to ANY
platform
> without much fuss.  Speed/Efficiency mean nothing to me as my apps are
> internal to a company and used by less than 50 people througout the  
> day.
>

Actually there is a binary pen.exe that works on windows. I am using  
it here for a way to do simple mongrel clusters on windows.


http://siag.nu/pub/pen/pen.exe

-Ezra

Wesley Lamb wrote:
> would it be possible to mimic what Pens/Balance/Pound does in 
> pure Ruby (yeah, I know the answer is yes)?  I guess I''m looking
for a
> starting point.  Does one simply write an HTTP listener that then 
> redirects the calls to Mongrel?  Is there a project already doing this?

Ok, back to my original question...please.  I don''t want to use 
Pen/Balance/Pound/Apache/Lighttpd/Litespeed, etc. etc. at the moment. 
I''d really just like to know if a pure Ruby app for this exists and if 
not where I should start to write my own.  (ie: Take a look at Module 
XYZ and Project ABC, etc.)

Thanks.

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On 7/18/06, Wesley Lamb <wes.lamb@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Speed/Efficiency mean nothing to me as my apps are
> internal to a company and used by less than 50 people througout the day.

If Speed/Efficiency doesn''t matter then why even bother with Mongrel.
Webrick running in production mode does everything you need it to do and is
a purely ruby based solution.

Josh
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On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 20:38 +0200, Wesley Lamb wrote:
> Wesley Lamb wrote:
> > would it be possible to mimic what Pens/Balance/Pound does in 
> > pure Ruby (yeah, I know the answer is yes)?  I guess I''m
looking for a
> > starting point.  Does one simply write an HTTP listener that then 
> > redirects the calls to Mongrel?  Is there a project already doing
this?
> 
> 
> Ok, back to my original question...please.  I don''t want to use 
> Pen/Balance/Pound/Apache/Lighttpd/Litespeed, etc. etc. at the moment. 
> I''d really just like to know if a pure Ruby app for this exists
and if
> not where I should start to write my own.  (ie: Take a look at Module 
> XYZ and Project ABC, etc.)
Well, you have all the tools available.  Mongrel is a web server that
answers requests.  Net/http in ruby does requests.  After a bit of work
you could probably easily write something.   It wouldn''t super duper
fast but it''s possible.


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Zed A. Shaw
http://www.zedshaw.com/
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/
http://www.railsmachine.com/ -- Need Mongrel support?