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Hi- We just finished our app and I tested for performance with httperf. Our setup is browser -> apache2.2-> mod_poxy balancer-> mongrel cluster -> 3 mongrel servers. I have noticed 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

Hi, I''m announcing Hirb, a mini view framework which enables script/ console to provide custom views. Out of the box your activerecord objects come back as ascii tables. You can also configure your tree-based models to return as ascii trees: Numeric |-- Float |-- Integer | |-- Bignum | `-- Fixnum |-- Date::Infinity `-- Rational I''ve written two tutorials on

I am running apache with mod_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/

Gang- We are getting ready to launch our ROR application; the last item remaining is the deployment platform. For testing, we had used Apache + MOD_FastCGI. I am not that impressed with it; sometimes it has strange effects. For example, when we start the application, for about 5 minutes or so, the app is very unstable and it gets better over time. My questions is .. should I go with (1)

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/.

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/.

Dear All, I have a centos 5 server running my mail and Dns working fine but when i try to do u yum ugrade or yum update it gives me lots of perl errors and it terminates OS is centos 5 (final) the part of errors reported --------------------------------- file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Math/BigFloat.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1

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/.

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/.

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/.

I''m using wx_sugar 0.1.2 with wxruby2-preview 0.0.37 on OSX and am coming up with a strange error when trying to create a SpinCtrl: class DatePicker < Wx::Dialog def initialize super(nil, :title => "Pick a date...") arrange_vertically(:padding => 5) @month = Wx::SpinCtrl.new(self) # line 19 add(@month) end end gives error:

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

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

I have lot of static pages in my applications (FAQs, Contacts, Privacy etc..) What is 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 --

I got a strange problem. My image upload worked fine in my XP. However after deploying to Linux, I am not able 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?

There''s a test for activerecord called test_numeric_fields in base_test.rb. here''s the test def test_numeric_fields m = NumericData.new( :bank_balance => 1586.43, :big_bank_balance => BigDecimal("1000234000567.95"), :world_population => 6000000000, :my_house_population => 3 ) assert m.save m1 =

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

Hey all, In my code, it seems that when I divide two integers, the result is an integer. Is there any way to make it such that when I divide two integers, the result is a double? Any help appreciated, Jin _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

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/

Wx::ListCtrl#set_item_count appears to be broken. If I pass it anything but a Fixnum (is_a Integer), it crashes and says it needs a "long" (which Fixnum should appease), but if I pass it a Fixnum it crashes with "cannot convert nil into String." Latest WxRuby. Windows Vista. This makes using LC_VIRTUAL impossible. -- Eric Will // xmpp:rakaur@malkier.net