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I just got a new Debian Sarge server and followed the brainspl.at "Debian Lighttpd Rails Stack" tutorial. The only place I deviated was the version of Lighty. The page uses 1.4.7 and I spotted that 1.4.10 was available. I installed that and couldn''t get anywhere. Lighty died on first access from the test rails app, and even from a ultra...

...--------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:41:06 -0700 > From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Mongrel] Time To Pick the Mongrel BUGS Mascot! > To: mongrel-users at rubyforge.org > Message-ID: <5146505B-ADFE-4C61-8E06-925B489CF887 at brainspl.at> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I''m going to have to say either Jake or Victoria myself. And I resent > the pug in that contest, he''s not ugly ;) > > -Ezra > > > On Jun 29, 2006, at 11:40 PM, Matt Pelletier wrote: >...

Hi there I''m planning to build "The Perfect Rails/Debian/Lighttpd Stack", published by Ezra Zygmuntowicz and Sean Schertell at http://brainspl.at/rails_stack.html I''m wondering what sort of constant maintanance that setup would incur. What actions have be regularly performed to keep this setup healthy and secure under normal conditions? Alder

...le backend processes like fcgi''s or mongrels. This MiddleMan runs in a drb(distributed ruby) process that is separate from the rails process. This allows for all backends to have one place to store data or launch jobs from. You can see the proof of concept screencasts here: http://brainspl.at/drb_progress.mov http://brainspl.at/drb_ajax_tail.mov And you can download the proof of concept rails app and run it yourself from here: http://opensvn.csie.org/ezra/rails/plugins/backgroundrb/ I''m looking for some folks to play with this and give feedback so I can improve on i...

Hi Im uploading a file to my rails app, i''s usually a large file, 5-50mb. Once the file has been uploaded it must be parsed and processed, this can take a very long time, 1-20mins. The problem is that most of the time my browser timeouts. Im not really sure how to solve it. One idea is that i have a script run constantly on the server that checks for uploaded files in a

Bradley Taylor shot me this *goldmine* of ugly ugly ugly dogs: http://www.sonoma-marinfair.org/uglydogvote.shtml I *have* to use one of these for the Mongrel BUGS Mascot. He''ll go on our bug list page and replace the little beetles on the left. Pick the dog you think best represents a lovable but defective pooch and reply to this with your +1. Let the voting begin! -- Zed A. Shaw

Hello, I want to create a progress bar for the exececution of a particular function. I found a solution at http://brainspl.at/articles/tag/background but one need to create a separate server that communicates the progress of a job. Is there anyways to change a global variable or so and have the user see the execution stage of the function? I tried playing with Thread but no success because for the page to be load...

Folks- James Cox, Alexy Kovyrin and I all huddled up and got nginx working perfectly with mongrel cluster and rails page caching. So all static and cached files are served fast by nginx and anything not static gets sent to mongrel. http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/09/12/new-nginx-conf-with-rails-caching Cheers- -Ezra

Hi ! Following Ezra's suggestions on http://brainspl.at/pages/perfect_vps, I changed the port sshd listens to. I'm trying to setup SwitchTower, and I don't know how to set the port. Where should that be configured ? I can't see anything in switchtower.rake, nor can I see it in the source. If this already exists, can anybody point me t...

...ot; } end =>["(articles.title LIKE ? OR articles.body LIKE ? OR articles.extended LIKE ?) AND ((authors.name = ?) OR (comments.body LIKE ?))", "%foo%", "%foo%", "%foo%", "Ezra", "% foo%"] More examples on my blog: http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/06/30/new-release-of-ez_where-plugin Get it here: $ script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org//var/svn/ez-where Mailing list here: http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ez-where-devel Cheers- -Ezra -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL...

...ite with fixtures that covers all the available syntax. Look at the test suite for more syntax possibilities. There have been many additions since my last release. Fabien Atelier has been working on this with me and has added a bunch of great code. You can get it from here: http://http://brainspl.at/opensvn.csie.org/ezra/rails/plugins/dev/ ez_where/ This is a request for feedback. I want to solidify the api soon so suggestions are welcome. Here''s a snippet from the README: Welcome to the new improved ez_where plugin for rails. This plugin is meant to be used as a nice ruby...

Hi all, I have a question about this method in my User model: # Returns true for the (saved) user called "admin" def is_the_administrator true if save and name == "admin" end The method returns true if the user''s name is admin. However, I only want to return true if the state of the object is "saved", so I call the save method first. I''m

Hi, Love Rails... I''m looking for a Production Quality Server that brings the same ease of use as Rails does to web development. I''ve tried TextDrive, and never got it to work. I''m sure there are good reasons why it didn''t work but they are beyond me. I''ve contacted tech support there several times, and it seems that there are so many setups that

Hello! Since Virtual Private Server seems to be the only way to run Rails apps without problems, so in the future I will need to become a Linux sysadmin. I plan on using debian (as per Ezra''s instructions in <http:// brainspl.at/pages/perfect_vps>). Rails VPS sysadmin is not the same as general Linux sysadmin, since only webserver, db and email are of interest (and of course all Rails stuff). So probably general Linux sysadmin books/resources are too much for me. Or not? Tell me... Are there any books (I am n...

I was brainstorming today about a smooth way to define conditions in an sql query, when the numbers of attributes increase, so does the uglyness. So instead of passing a hash, I thought you could specify the conditions directly in code. I hacked together some example code which actually turned out to work. The result is concise and pretty beutiful. def search(params) Ad.find(:all) do

Hello list, I have an app that has a very simple authorization scheme. A person can have many roles and roles can have many people. In my app, I''d like to do before_filter :login_required (since no role name is provided, it accepts any users with credentials) before_filter :login_required ("administrator") (only accepts those with role administrator) before_filter

...own the problem/solution but just wanted to throw out the question to see if anyone was using this already succesfully or if someone (Dave? :) knew why ferret might choke on this setup. I''ve been developing using lighttpd as a server without any problems -Debian sarge built like http://brainspl.at/articles/2005/11/13/the-perfect-lightweight-rails-lighttpd-debian-install but I''ve just started testing on a production server -Debian sarge with with Apache 2.2, mod_proxy_balancer and Mongrel built like http://forums.rimuhosting.com/forums/showthread.php?t=230 and http://blog.innere...

There are a number of good authentication frameworks for rails - has anyone developed a generic authorization framework? I''m thinking of something that included the concept of roles, mapped roles to both actions and users and could be used to wrap actions before their invocation. Extra good would be some way to check data permissions (as in, "yes you can perform the ''Edit

...up. I would love for more folks to experiment with this type of setup to expose any issues it may have as a production environment. I have had zero issues with it so far and I am able to get 800-1000 req/sec for static assets and 70-140 req/sec for full blown dynamic rails pages. http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/04/26/dead-simple-deployment Let me know what you think. Cheers- -Ezra

In case this helps anyone I recently finished setting up a Debian server closely following Ezra''s excellent guidance @ http://brainspl.at/rails_stack.html. I used newer libraries in some cases (and mysql 5.0) and everything worked great until the end when lighttpd wouldn''t start. I finally figured out that Lighty 1.4.9 has a problem working with rails out-of-the-box. See ticket http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/487...