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Hey all I am working with a technology standard (specific to the commercial print industry) by which each element within the workflow has bi- directional HTTP messaging. As each side needs a http server, I thought I could either: a) use a gem plugin to modify the behavior of mongrel b) subclass Mongrel::HttpHandler In short, its xml messaging between two points; each with a HTTP client

Hey All I was just wondering if anyone had tried deploying merb as a windows service? I am familiar with the sc.exe tool ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251192 ) - do you think adding the correct paths and such to the merb bin will work? I am going to try this tomorrow but wondered what peoples thoughts were? Many thanks Tim

Hey All, I just wanted to get other peoples take on problems when running merb in production? Just as Rails used to do, the mongrels tend to get heavy/unresponsive over time so need a good kicking by a watcher daemon like god or monit. However, I have had serious problems getting God to restart the process, as the "merb -k <port>" command doesnt appear to work reliably

Hey all, Just to say after some discussion on the IRC the other day there seemed to be some support for creating a mootools plugin for Merb. So, I have started a merb-mootools project on rubyforge to bring mootools integration to Merb in the form of some nice easy helpers (think rails style prototype helpers). We are literally just starting this project, and would welcome anyone who

Hey all I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for building some tests for a merb plugin i''ve written. I took a look at the plugin gems on ruby-forge, but none of them seem to have any tests?! Im not at all familiar with RSpec so not too sure where to start with this? Thanks for any help Tim

Hey All Quick question, what''s the merb equivalent of this: ActionView::Base.new([template_root], assigns, self) in merb? Ive found Merb::Template::Erubis.transform(:file => ''/path/to/file'') But I''ve no idea if thats the correct thing to be calling? It doesn''t ''feel'' right, so im not sure it is? Thanks Tim

Hey Chaps, Forgive me for not fully understanding the inner workings of merb, but I would like to read in a YAML configuration file once when the application is booted rather than reading it every time it is used (as presumably the overhead in doing that is significant?) - I had presumed this is how both Merb and rails do it for there database.yml config files (hence its a requirement

Hey all, I am looking to write a plugin for merb and have a few queries about how to best go about it. I have a few questions (sorry if some are very merb newbie ones): - It seems all the plugins are gems; I can just add dependencies (my plugin will require soap4r) as per any usual gem spec? - If I want my plugin to add some new generate functionality? Is this possible? If so, are there