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Hi Everyone, There''s quite a few of you who have contacted me about Mongrel suddenly stopping. After a lot of investigation, I found that the common thread between all of you is memcache and Eric Hodel''s memcache-client. People who were running this combination would have intermittent pauses and investigating the stalled mongrels showed that memcache-client was waiting for

On 1/23/07, mongrel-users-request at rubyforge.org < mongrel-users-request at rubyforge.org> wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:48:21 -0800 > From: "Zed A. Shaw" <zedshaw at zedshaw.com> > Subject: [Mongrel] [ANN] Mongrel 1.0.1 Officially Released > To: mongrel-users at rubyforge.org > Message-ID: <20070122214821.4804e941.zedshaw at zedshaw.com>

Alright Mongrel people, thanks for contributing to the mayhem around popularity by making me the official King of the Internet. In case you all missed it, here''s my blog post on my first act as King: http://www.zedshaw.com/blog/2006-12-26.html Stay tuned for pedro. I want to make this reign very democratic and chaotic. (I wonder if the Nitro folks will help with pedro?) The whole

Hi Everyone, Just want to get out another ping on the Mongrel pre-release saga. I''ve updated a bunch of the documentation to include documents people have donated and to beef up the FAQ for most of the questions people have asked over the past month. INSTALL gem install mongrel --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/ CHANGES * Fixed memory leak by switching to Sync rather

It''s time again for your monthly cgi.rb DOS vulnerability. This latest vulnerability is different from the one that cgi_multipart_eof_fix.gem fixed. This one is related to the boundary taken from the web client being used incorrectly. You can read about the vulnerability: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/12/04/another-dos-vulnerability-in-cgi-library The applicable PATCH is

Calling All Mongrel Minions! I wanna have some fun and would like this as a Christmas present. The site http://www.workingwithrails.com/ has this lame popularity system that''s kind of irking some of the main Ruby contributors. I think it''s kind of funny, but would like to demonstrate what an army of motivated people can do to these kinds of popularity contests. So, as a

Alright folks, I put in a fix for camping and added the patch by Thomas Hurst for the accf_http deferred accept settings for FreeBSD. As usual, please test this release out and let me know if it has any additional problems. I''ll be working on win32 builds today and tomorrow with Luis. Install with: sudo gem install fastthread --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases sudo gem

Hi folks, I took a break from Mongrel today and instead whipped up an Atom feed generator for my site. People who love or utterly hate my essays will lover or utterly hate to subscribe to it. http://www.zedshaw.com/feed.atom Let me know if it isn''t working well in your favorite feed reader. -- Zed A. Shaw, MUDCRAP-CE Master Black Belt Sifu http://www.zedshaw.com/

Hi All, I''ve been running into quite a few people who''ve claimed that they have Apache (or lighttpd) serving static files, but then they paste in error messages from Mongrel that shows not only Mongrel not serving the files, but Rails is serving them. Everyone using apache should run this very simple test: 1) Setup your apache so that it point at one backend. 2) Start your

Hi Folks, I was playing with Lingr today (http://www.lingr.com) and kind of like it, so I thought I''d setup a little room and see how it works for answering Mongrel questions. http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 I''ll be hanging there for a while and we''ll see how it works out. If it works well, and doesn''t turn into a nastier-than-IRC situation then I may

I''m proud to announce the official Mongrel certification program: http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/certified.html Move quick, seats are filling fast for the RubyConf courses. -- Zed A. Shaw http://www.zedshaw.com/ http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 -- Come get help.

I''m spending today writing documentation. I''ll be updating quite a few documents, doing some edits, and adding some user contributed docs. If anyone has documentation suggestions, FAQ questions they''d like included, or things they think are old and stale, then let me know. Swing by the Lingr room: http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 And drop me a line if you want

I hope everyone is getting something out of these recommendations. Today''s recommendation comes from the "Damn Common Sense" dept. of advice. Let''s say you''ve written a really really slow rails application. Best you can get out of the thing is 2 req/sec. What can you possibly do about that? It''s a common problem for new rails developers. Well, the

I really wanted to thank everyone personally for voting for me, but man I don''t have the time. So, like a good programmer I just automated it with espeak: $ speak -w thank_you_everyone.wav -s 168 -v en/en-f -p 60 -a 120 -l 50 -f who.txt $ lame -V2 thank_you_everyone.wav thank_you_everyone.mp3 And now you all get a personalized thanks from some electronic British woman:

Hello All, I''m putting out a quick half-release because there''s some work on the MIME types I''ve included that needs to be done by all of you. Read at the end to understand your role in what you started. This release features two major capitulations on Mongrel''s stance of not being a full web server. The first is Mongrel now sports a YAML file with 739 MIME

There seems to be a bunch of books now that either mention Mongrel or focus on it or will focus on it. I''ve got my book, but the more books that people can easily get in as many languages as possible benefits Mongrel and everyone. Soooo, I''m gonna start a "Books" page that will list all the books that talk about Mongrel. Send me your book, a small abstract, and the

Hi Folks, I''m sure tons of people are gonna ruin a whole drawer of their best panties over this one. Rick Olson worked on the mongrel_upload_progress gem, documentation and examples and has almost everything you need to do progress tracked file uploads using just Mongrel to handle the upload. This means that Rails (or any other framework) isn''t blocked while the upload

I received this piece of code in a patch that turns on the FreeBSD http filtering. I completely missed that it calls /sbin/sysctl directly which means I''m slipping on my auditing. def configure_socket_options case RUBY_PLATFORM when /linux/ # 9 is currently TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT $tcp_defer_accept_opts = [Socket::SOL_TCP, 9, 1] $tcp_cork_opts =

Howdy Folks, This release is after painstaking analysis of a memory leak that was reported by Bradley Taylor, reduced by myself, and then fixed after much work. You should all thank Bradley for finding the bizarre fix. It turns out the Ruby has a memory leak when you use pretty much any thread locking primitive other than Sync (Mutex, Monitor, etc.): http://pastie.caboo.se/10194 The fix (for

Someone contacted me earlier today and pointed out this typo in the mongrel apache documentation: "the following line: BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html must be written instead as: BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html The effect of this typo is that files that are not caught by previously listed rules, such as all *.css and *.js files are never deflated for MSIE