Rails - Aug 2006 - capistrano+mongrel struggles

Hello,

I am trying to deploy on to OS X Server with capistrano+mongrel+apache2, 
etc.

I''m trying to do a "cap cold_deploy" as recommended here:

http://blog.codahale.com/2006/06/19/time-for-a-grown-up-server-rails-mongrel-apache-capistrano-and-you/

I had a devil of a time getting cap to find the mongrel_rails command 
(which is in /opt/local/bin) on the server.  I set the path in the 
.profile. I set it in /etc/profile.  I rebooted the server.  I set the 
~/.ssh/environment as recommended here:

http://blog.nanorails.com/articles/2006/07/11/installing-rails-on-mac-os-x-tiger

to the following:

PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/apache2/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin

Still nothing.  I even went so far as to hardcode the path to 
/opt/local/bin/mongrel_rails everywhere I could find "mongrel_rails in 
the code: (the following two files on both my dev box and the server)

/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel_cluster-0.2.0/lib/mongrel_cluster/init.rb
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel_cluster-0.2.0/lib/mongrel_cluster/recipes.rb

This worked somewhat.

I know I should not hardcode the path and believe me if that fixed it I 
would submit a patch that parameterized it just the way I can use set 
:cvs, "/path/to/cvs" in the deploy.rb.

Okay, so then it started complaining that it could not start because the 
log path was invalid.  Default is log/mongrel.log.  Well fooey.   I 
hardcoded that to be: /Users/me/MyApp/current/log/mongrel.log

Then I had to do the same for the docroot because it could not find 
''public''.

Now, it appears to start the mongrel servers:

  * executing task spinner
  * executing task start_mongrel_cluster
  * executing "sudo /opt/local/bin/mongrel_rails cluster::start -C 
/Users/me/MyApp/current/config/mongrel_cluster.yml"
    servers: ["www.myserver.com"]
    [www. myserver.com] executing command
 ** [out :: www. myserver.com] Starting 3 Mongrel servers...
    command finished

Looks good, right?  Wrong.

There are no files in the log dir -- no .pids and no mongrel.log -- and 
there are no mongrel processes running and nothing listening on 8000.

Even when I run the command by hand, it exits and there is no new 
process running.

/opt/local/bin/mongrel_rails start -d -e production -p 8000 -l 
/Users/me/MyApp/current/log/mongrel.log -P 
/Users/me/MyApp/current/log/mongrel.8000.pid

Anyone have any idea what the issue could be?

Very Much Appreciated,

Steven

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Does anybody know why Mongrel would just pretend to start and then exit
without a trace?

Steven


Steven Talcott Smith wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to deploy on to OS X Server with capistrano+mongrel+apache2, 
> etc.
[...backstory deleted...]
> 
> Now, it appears to start the mongrel servers:
> 
>   * executing task spinner
>   * executing task start_mongrel_cluster
>   * executing "sudo /opt/local/bin/mongrel_rails cluster::start -C 
> /Users/me/MyApp/current/config/mongrel_cluster.yml"
>     servers: ["www.myserver.com"]
>     [www. myserver.com] executing command
>  ** [out :: www. myserver.com] Starting 3 Mongrel servers...
>     command finished
> 
> Looks good, right?  Wrong.
> 
> There are no files in the log dir -- no .pids and no mongrel.log -- and 
> there are no mongrel processes running and nothing listening on 8000.
> 
> Even when I run the command by hand, it exits and there is no new 
> process running.
> 
> /opt/local/bin/mongrel_rails start -d -e production -p 8000 -l 
> /Users/me/MyApp/current/log/mongrel.log -P 
> /Users/me/MyApp/current/log/mongrel.8000.pid
> 
> Anyone have any idea what the issue could be?
> 
> Very Much Appreciated,
> 
> Steven
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