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...that the total request per second is is about 7.5. When I increase the no of mongrel to 5, it inches up to 8 req/s. My question is how bad or good this number is? We are on a old dell 2400 machine with MySQL also runing ony the box. What can I do to increase the req/sec number higher? /thanks thila -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

...r over time. My questions is .. should I go with (1) mod_fastCGI or try (2) Lighttpd OR (3)apache mod_proxy with mongrel. What are the pros and cons of these three deployment platform. Also, are there any other solution. I would love to hear from those who have their app in production. /thanks thila. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I get the following error when I try to install Rmagic (via gem) on Linux. Do I need to install anyting before installing rmagic? This worked seamlessly on windows. What the best way to install it on Linux. I am on RedHat ES 3. /thanks -thila Attempting local installation of ''rmagick'' Local gem file not found: rmagick*.gem Attempting remote installation of ''rmagick'' Building native extensions. This could take a while... configure: error: Can''t install RMagick. Can''t find Magick-con...

I have a table with the list of business name and address in it. It may contain 1 million rows. The users want to look up into this table based on the business name. The simple solution is to use LIKE in mysql, but I am worried about performance, since the user load will be very high for this system. Any suggestion on how to handle the potential performance issue? How can i use a search

Gang- 1. Is there anything in Ruby that handles the .properites files similar to the J2EE application servers. Or do I need to define all of the properties as constants? 2. Is there anyway I can load some of my classes (such as singletons) during the startup? I am looking for the startup classes that J2EE containers provide. Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

How do I save an array of obects into the database? For now I am doing for a in array a.save end. I am sure there must be an easy way to do this. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi- I need to create simple charts on the fly - I had used JFreeChart in the past with inJ2EE apps. Is there any equivalent here for Ruby. My charting needs are simple: just line charts. Also if anyone has done this, pls let me know how I should go about in doing it. Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi- I have a BigInt (MySql) column type - RAILS treats it as FixNum, which causes big problem for us since we need to store a 12+ number of digits. How can I tell Rails to treat is as BigNum instead of FixNum? thanks thila -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Why can''t I access the utility methods defined in applicaion.rb from the model classes? If that does not work, where is the best place to put common utility methods that must be available to all the models. thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

...the best way to handle (deploy) these pages in my application. I am using Apache with fastcgi. I would like to deliver the static pages from the apache itself. Basically how the deployment is done? The catch is the user should be easily navigate between the static and dynamic contents. thanks thila -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

..._fastcgi on Linux - I would like to run my app in production mode, but I could not. Following is what I have in my httpd.conf. Can someone tell me why it does not recognize the env variable for production? The app always runs under development mode i.e ignores the RAILS_ENV directive. thanks/ thila. <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c> FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi_ipc/ FastCgiServer /app.......dir/public/dispatch.fcgi \ -initial-env RAILS_ENV=production \ -processes 4 -idle-timeout 180 AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi </IfModule> .. . . . <VirtualHost 192.168.1.10> Server...

All- I am new to Ruby; following are my two questions: 1. Which is the best login plugin? I keep hearing about SALT and loginengine. 2. For installing loginengine; I see the two following steps - Both these does not work for me. : $ script/plugin install login_engine ==I am getting "script/plugin is not a internal or external command, operable program or batch file"

I have a text_area to accept upto 1000 chars, which is stored as a blob in mysql. When I try to display the saved data, I dont see the new line characters - however I could see the newline characters in EDIT MODE. So my newline char is lost during displaying. Any ideas how to fix it. thanks thila -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

...ble to upload images from XP machine - I get "Image location invalid image" error message. However, I am able to upload images from linux boxes. Can anyone tell me what would cause this problem? Is there any setting in file_column that are specific to the deployment server os? thanks thila -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

All experts out there, I went thru the archives and aparantly lot more people have the same problem as me. I would like someone to answer the following question. Question: How to handle multiple rows in a single form? Example: Say there is a employee class, with the following 4 attributes 1. name (text field) 2. sex (radio button) 3. state (drop-down) 4. company policy indicator

How do I pass parameters from one controller to another during redirect_to command? I want to pass both model and non-model objects. The solution I use is via session, but I rather pass it as parameters to the redirect_to Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am truying to install the plugin ("ruby script/plugin install engines"). But I get this big error. Any help? D:\develop\Ruby\workspace\a2>ruby script/plugin install engines script/plugin: No such file or directory - svn --version script/plugin: No such file or directory - svn ls http://dev.rubyonrails.com/svn /rails/plugins/

>From WITHIN my web app, I want the web app users to be able to send IM messages to yahoo,msn,AOL users. The receving users are not aware of the sender. So our web app takes the input msg from the sender (RAILs app), then on the background sends the msg to the recevier (the recevier is aware of the sending application id). Any response from the recevier will then be displayed to the sender

Hi- I need to create PDF docs on the fly with data from a database. I see couple of options floating around to achieve this in Ruby. Can anyone recommend the best way to do this? Also any helpful hints or sample programs will be appreciated. Thanks Thila -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I''m very new to Rails and have a general question. What technique would you use to allow users who have a uniform set of data to create very un-uniform websites from that data? One set of data, many different website/output possibilities. It would have to go beyond CSS. I''m assuming there will potentially be some level of scripting involved for each template. The goal is