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Any news on the Apache Best Practice Deployment instructions? I''m getting ready to set up a production server, and would prefer to use Apache and Mongrel/Cluster. Don''t think I''ll be able to get the latest Apache though. Do I have to proxy through Pound or something to handle multiple mongrel instances? Any pointers? Any help appreciated, Brett

Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that I built some Debian (Sarge) packages to allow an apt-get only installation of Mongrel, Ruby and friends. Also contained is an init script that is capable of managing multiple applications. Support for the Pen load balancer is also included. More info can be found there:

Hello, I''m seeking a book on rails deployment (I think a general deployment on nix book can helps too) I need in depth information about Apache, FastCGI, (LightTPD maybe). I was thinking always I know what a web server is! but when I think more deeply about it (after reading Capistrano doc) it seems I need more info about app, web and db servers. stuff like how to config the app server

I am having issues when using unicorn with a Capistrano deployment. >From what I have been able to understand Capistrano uses a scheme in wich every release is deployed inside the releases directory under a unique name and if the transaction was successful, creates a symlink named current that will point to that release. So I end up with a deployment directory such as:

Hello Mongrels, Building on the last messages about Fastthread, can we get a detailed survey of the different ways people are deploying their applications? It will help with near-future Mongrel development. Please include the following things: * Framework, if any (Camping, Merb, Rails, Nitro, Ramaze, IOWA, Rack...) * Mongrel version * Mongrel handlers used (rails, dirhandler, camping,

Hi all, On theserverside.com there is an article describing an interview with Bruce Tate, where he calls Java dead like Cobol. See: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39066 However in the comments, some guy comes up with a good point: He states the following: <quote> I couldn''t come up with a viable enterprise quality/grade deployment platform for RoR. Even

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

Hi y''all; A quick note to announce the release of mongrel_cluster, a gem_plugin for Mongrel. This plugin provides commands for managing multiple Mongrel processes behind a reverse-proxy server and load balancer. To install: gem install mongrel_cluster Configure (use -h to options): mongrel_rails cluster::configure Start: mongrel_rails cluster::start I''ve posted a quick

I would like first to introduce my self to the community. I am Steve Beyer and I am interested in learning Ruby, ROR, and how to set up a production server. I am going to use OSX for my client/developement system but I would like to get some advice on what operating system you would recommend for a production server. I want to use Mongrel to start and then move up the ladder as my

Hello, I''m running mongrel behind apache via proxypass. Every now and then, a spammer tries to proxy traffic through apache, and for some reason, apache forwards the request to mongrel, even though it''s not a site being hosted by me. At times this seems to cause mongrel to become unresponsive, and all requests to the site then fail with a proxy error until mongrel is

Hi, My department has a SAN and I''m wondering if it is safe to have all of my mongrel''s share log files stored on the SAN. More specifically, we have 4 machines, each running a couple of mongrel processes. Right now each machine has its own set of log files for mongrel. However, I am thinking that it might be better to put the log files on the SAN and let all the mongrels

First, I''m trying to do the legwork with utilizing all 4 together because many people say it''s a good combination to use. I already have apache setup (was using it with the PHP version of my site formerly). I''ve installed all gems and dependencies that I need on my slice (using slicehost). I have a fully pushed git repository (master) on github (private git) with one

It is something that I have been wondering. When working with other application servers there is often/most of the time a 3 tiers/layers architecture: - Presentation layer/Web services - Application layer - Database layer They often resides on separate machines, 3 different sets. So the application code is logically AND physically separated from the presentation layer. Is this possible with

I''ve got my application running under Windows with mongrel perfectly, so it was time to convert it to a service. service::install works fine, but service:start gives me some "One moment, start pending" and then lots of "One moment, stopped". After a bit of digging I found this in the service.log: ** Starting Mongrel in production mode at :3000 ** Starting Rails in

Hi everybody, I just suscribe to the list because I have a problem using mongrel and mongrel_cluster... I setup a server (debian unstable wich provide apache 2.2.3 as a pakage) but I have an error when I try to access my application : ERROR 403 : Forbidden, You don''t have permission to access / on this server. When I check apache''s logs I found that : [warn] proxy: No

Apologies in advance if this ignites a war of comflicting opinions.... I''m a few days away from going live with my first RoR application. It is completely database centric and each user will have his own queries so cacheing will not really help. I have a dedicated linux server being built by my hosting provider and I need to tell them which webserver to use. The databse is MySQL

I know we already mentioned this before on the list but I couldn''t find it in the archives. Is there a way to differentiate the versions for ruby/mswin32 so that I could run a command like: # sudo gem install mongrel --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/ --include-dependencies --version 1.0 and have it not prompt me like this: Select which gem to install for your platform

Whilst monitoring my host I noticed that there were three mongrel_rails processes running for a single (non mongrel_clustered) application. Is this normal? Do the processes share the memory top indicates they''re each using? Cheers, -- Dave Murphy (Schwuk) http://schwuk.com

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

Hi! I''ve been using parallels, vmware player, or virtual pc (did not try xen yet) for development, testing and experimenting with new platforms (and I must say I love them - copy paste a few files, and I have a clean deployment box etc) Since the RailsConf and various talks I''ve seen (like Jason Hoffmann''s http://svn.joyent.com/public/JasonHoffman-EuroRailsConf.pdf ,