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As an alternative to polling the client, as Ryan describes, you could consider piggy-backing the status updates on the back of other ajax responses. Which way you go depends entirely on the nature of your app, in particular: 1. how frequently it generates ajax traffic anyway 2. how long the server-side process is going to take If the server-side process takes, say, 20 seconds, polling is a

I''m confused. Wasn''t threading fixed in 1.8.6, negating the need for fastthread? Why is fastthread still a requirement of Mongrel? Just curious. :)

I''ve just released Juggernaut - a plugin for ruby on rails. Check out the site: http://juggernaut.rubyforge.org I?ve also finished a demo that illustrates some of Juggernuat?s capabilities. You can sign up for an account here: http://alexmaccaw.no-ip.info:3500/login/sign_up . It might be a tad slow as it?s running from my home machine. Juggernaut for Ruby on Rails initiates a flash

Hey folks, I was playing around with adding Comet (a javascript technology used to receive events without AJAX polling) support to Mongrel. More info about Comet here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29) I sort of got it working. My code is available at: http;//cyll.org/comet.tar.gz Run comet.rb from inside the directory and point your browser at: http://localhost:5555/ The

Hi mongrel-herders, I''m just wondering what fellow railsers use to rotate their logs in an orderly fashion? I''d like to do something lightweight, i.e. (1) rename the logfile (2, optional) create a new empty logfile and (3) send a signal to each mongrel in the cluster and have them understand it''s time to reopen their log file handles. This is what I do with apache and

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 Everybody! I was wondering if/how Camping can process more than one request at once (i.e. not what Rails does). I''m fairly new to threads, and I bought a book, and read some of it, and dived into the Camping source... I found some thread stuff but I''m not... entirely sure. So I thought I would ask! RYan. http://yeahnah.org/

Hey folks, I''m working on the Mongrel book with Zed, and wanted to get some feedback from the core users (this list) about how they use Mongrel. That sounds a bit vague, but I''m interested in hearing things about frustrating problems / workaround, preferred configurations, if you have a particular way you set up / store your config files when developing / deploying an

Hello I''ve a client which send this request to a mongrel HTTPHandler : res=Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse(''http://localhost:3000/test''),{"a"=>1,"b"=>2}) But in the handler I can''t read the parameters one by one, I can read the entire String only : class Serveur class MyHandler < Mongrel::HttpHandler def process(req, resp)

Hi, I found the following page describing how to stream data from the server to the client: http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionController/Streaming.html I want to do the opposite, streaming data from the client to the server, letting the controller saving the data while it''s being received. In particular, I want to upload large files to the RailsDav

I''m setting up a Rails app for a client that uses Windows. I''m getting this error: c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.18/lib/mongrel/rails.rb: 32: uninitial ized constant Mongrel::HttpHandler (NameError) from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:21:in `re quire'' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.18/bin/

In our app we''ve a number of singleton ruby classes that cache static data in hashes, things like string values, system config params, etc). In a webbrick environment this works ok, but we find in production we have a problem because we have 4 caches, one for each mongrel instance. This also isn''t a BIG problem, but our cache.reload() methods are kinda useless now, because we

Hello all- Forgive me if this has been discussed before- I searched the archives and didn''t see anything. Anyway, here it goes- There is a lot of talk lately about Comet-based applications- that is, web apps that hold connections to the server open for a very long time, to effectively achieve realtime data push from the server to the browser. Currently, there are a few web

Hi, I''ve been doing some experiments with php and if can use something like <?php for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++) { echo "hello world"; flush(); sleep(10); } ?> to keep a http link open for an arbitrary amount of time and routinely display "hello world" in the browser window. Is is possible to write a mongrel handler to do something similar? Thanks

Hi! I''ve been following the new mongrel tuneup guide (a huge thanks for that btw) and here are my results. I''ve basically only gotten to the point where I''m tuning up 1 mongrel because I suspect I have a performance problem with my rails app. http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/how_many_mongrels.html The first number is the 10s nconns and the second is the max req/s as

Hi all- I''m running mongrel with a tiny HttpHandler that hooks into a larger library I''m working on. I''ve run into a snag with trying to debug with it in that I''m not entirely sure how to get the exception logs of errors that are raised. All I get to stderr is this: Fri Dec 22 17:16:14 -0800 2006: ERROR: Couldn''t find Models::Contact without

i have an archive of documents (word, excel, jpeg, png, gif...) residing on a network share that is accessed via send_file. when running mongrel on the command line the files are properly delivered. with mongrel running as a service they don''t. now normally i would think that should be fixable by configuring the service to run under a user that can read the files.... but

This on Ubuntu testing with the default ruby1.8 package, RubyForge current gems, mongrel...this look familiar to anyone?? andre@andre:~/rails_apps/depot$ mongrel_rails /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13/lib/mongrel/rails.rb:44: uninitialized constant Mongrel::HttpHandler (NameError) from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require'' from

Hi folks, I have a problem with a storage web service our group wrote using Mongrel::HttpHandler We have a consistent problem when using http PUT to this service when the data is larger than about 4 GB. The web service actually retrieves and processes the data, but the clients hang - the TCP connection is still in the ESTABLISHED state on the client side, but the TCP session no longer exists on

Time for some all time pimpage folks. Me and Matt Pelletier wrote a small PDF book on Mongrel entitled: "Mongrel: Serving, Deploying, and Extending Your Ruby Applications" since we really wanted you to know what it was about. It''s published by Addison Wesley Professional, has just over 100 pages of goodness, and is available for $14.99 at: http://safari.oreilly.com/0321483502