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Hi there I''m planning to build "The Perfect Rails/Debian/Lighttpd Stack", published by Ezra Zygmuntowicz and Sean Schertell at http://brainspl.at/rails_stack.html I''m wondering what sort of constant maintanance that setup would incur. What actions have be regularly performed to keep this setup healthy and secure under normal conditions? Alder

In case this helps anyone I recently finished setting up a Debian server closely following Ezra''s excellent guidance @ http://brainspl.at/rails_stack.html. I used newer libraries in some cases (and mysql 5.0) and everything worked great until the end when lighttpd wouldn''t start. I finally figured out that Lighty 1.4.9 has a problem working with rails out-of-the-box. See

I just got a new Debian Sarge server and followed the brainspl.at "Debian Lighttpd Rails Stack" tutorial. The only place I deviated was the version of Lighty. The page uses 1.4.7 and I spotted that 1.4.10 was available. I installed that and couldn''t get anywhere. Lighty died on first access from the test rails app, and even from a ultra basic static config. No log,

I''m trying to get our app running on Lighty... I followed Ezra''s instructions: http://brainspl.at/pages/rails_stack... Currently the app runs fine with webrick, but with lighty I get 404 errors on everything. I found if I don''t edit the lighttpd.conf file to use absolute paths, it works fine. But this is not good for production because I need to run it with the -d

I''ve been playing around with some easier ways of specifying conditions in active record, and have come up with a little plugin that some may find useful. Currently active record finder and calculations methods can take a :conditions option with a string or array listing some sql conditions, eg: Animals.find :first, :conditions => "name = ''Tiger''" My

Friends- I''m happy to annouce the first alpa release of BackgrounDRb. This is a small framework for managing long running background tasks that allows for ajax progress bars and more. It also serves as an Application wide cache and context store for when you need something like sessions but shared between users and multiple backend processes like fcgi''s or mongrels.

Folks- James Cox, Alexy Kovyrin and I all huddled up and got nginx working perfectly with mongrel cluster and rails page caching. So all static and cached files are served fast by nginx and anything not static gets sent to mongrel. http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/09/12/new-nginx-conf-with-rails-caching Cheers- -Ezra

Hello friends- There is a new release of the ez-where plugin. This plugin makes it easy to do complex ActiveRecord queries without writing any SQL. Ruby operators are mapped to SQL operators like so: foo == ''bar'' #=> ["foo = ?", ''bar''] foo =~ ''%bar'' #=> ["foo LIKE ?", ''%bar'']

Hi ! Following Ezra's suggestions on http://brainspl.at/pages/perfect_vps, I changed the port sshd listens to. I'm trying to setup SwitchTower, and I don't know how to set the port. Where should that be configured ? I can't see anything in switchtower.rake, nor can I see it in the source. If this already exists, can anybody point me to documentation. If not, can I get any

Friends- I wanted to let people know that there is a new experimental release of this plugin. I would love feedback on syntax and features. There is now a full test suite with fixtures that covers all the available syntax. Look at the test suite for more syntax possibilities. There have been many additions since my last release. Fabien Atelier has been working on this with me and has

Hello! Since Virtual Private Server seems to be the only way to run Rails apps without problems, so in the future I will need to become a Linux sysadmin. I plan on using debian (as per Ezra''s instructions in <http:// brainspl.at/pages/perfect_vps>). Rails VPS sysadmin is not the same as general Linux sysadmin, since only webserver, db and email are of interest (and of

Hello everyone! A collegue and I are beginning development on a site that will eventually need to very scalable (assuming our business model is a good idea). My problem is that I''m not a sysadmin guru, and I''m not terribly comfortable with the design of the hosting platform. We''re going to start with two servers initially (for cost reasons), and I''m considering

I see that the RubyOnRails.com site has migrated to Mongrel with Apache as a front-end proxy. Is that now the/a recommended setup for Rails apps? We''re still using FCGI but I''m always interested to learn more about other folk''s successful deployment choices. Across all of our sites we''re pumping out about 300k pages per day so anything that saves memory or has

>> Can I change my vote to http://samugliestdog.com/Sam162edited.jpg yikes! how''d that get past my firewall? +1 On 6/30/06, mongrel-users-request at rubyforge.org <mongrel-users-request at rubyforge.org> wrote: > Send Mongrel-users mailing list submissions to > mongrel-users at rubyforge.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit

Friends- There is a new release of BackgrounDRb. This time it is a full fledged rails plugin with generators and rake tasks thanks to Saimon Moore. Thanks Saimon! You can read all about it here on my blog: http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/05/25/backgroundrb-new-release The newest feature besides the much cleaner way to install and control the drb server is caching. You can now use

OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_CTX_new:: library has no ciphers This error is thrown whenever I use anything that uses Net::HTTP. OS X Tiger, ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.2.1] What could it mean? Joshua Sierles

Hi everybody I am trying to get RoR to work with lighttpd. Nearly there, but I am stuck with a strange phenomenon. If I configure lighttpd to serve pages on say port 2000, I can get at my testapp fine and see the "Welcome aboard" page. However, if I configure lighttpd to use port 80, I get a download prompt from my browser. If I access my URI like

I am putting a rails stack on a debian linux box. Ezra did a great job with his tutorial <http://brainspl.at/rails_stack.html> What I am in doubt is what is recommended / common practise to install stuff which is not availble yet with apt-get (eg. ruby 1.8.4, postgresql 8.1, lighttpd). the options I played with (=> and the conclusion): compiling from source (get source straight from

It was a miserable failure for us. Your best bet is to run on Linux. > 1. Has anyone done any benchmarks with it? Is there any reason this > couldn''t be viable for production loads? (feel free to speculate if you > haven''t) When it finally worked, after two weeks of trial and error (and we can''t reproduce it again) it performs poorly under IIS. It looks

This has been such a fun project. Couldn''t keep myself away: http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2006/02/19/syncpeople-on-rails-07/ == Summary == Easily navigate between ActionMailer models, views, partials, controllers, helpers, javascripts and stylesheets with a single key (keypad ''enter'') in TextMate. This release also adds an Enhanced TODO List (ctrl-shift-t) and