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I am considering creating a web interface for system administration, but it would need a plug-in architecture, adding new UIs as new services are added. I''m thinking about doing this with multiple Rails applications, and I''m curious as to whether mongrel can most multiple apps in a single instance, as opposed to running one for each. Is this possible? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P.

Hey, I''m using mongrel supervised via runit. I''d like to capture mongrel logs with svlogd, which just requires logging to stdout/stderr. But, the Rails app is logging in its own log directory. Is there a way to make both mongrel and Rails log to stdout/stderr? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca> "Any intelligent fool can make things

Hi, I''ve recently deployed a rails app and our platform is Apache 2.2 + mongrel cluster. It seems to be working fine... although no real tests yet. I just recently found out that it is *quite* possible that the live server will not be getting an update to apache 2.2, and the current version is 1.3. So... I''ve installed Apache 1.3 + FastCGI on the dev server and it''s

Hi We have mongrel 0.3.4 (off the top of my head) on two FreeBSD webservers, installed it out of ports. The rc script has been installed. Is this done by the port, or does the gem do it? We want to upgrade to mongrel 1.0.1 - are there any changes to the rc script? I''m not sure if upgrading through gems will leave the rc script broken in any way. Unfortunately

Hi guys, I''ve been running mongrel for a while now with Ruby 1.8.4, and last week upgraded to 1.8.6. Since upgrading, each morning when I wake up there''s a big problem: 1. Accessing the site returns a "500 Internal Server Error" 2. All the mongrel_rails processes are still running, but none of them are active (when I run top) 3. Lighttpd and pound are still

After reading the digital shortcut and the documentation on the web site I''m confused. Which one should I use? pen, balance or nginx ? I don''t want to use a behemoth like appache and ssl is not needed so it reduces my choice to those three only.... What are the pros and cons of each? I don''t have much money, so the less ressources I use the better it is for me.... As

Hi, was wondering if anyone else had a similar problem and knows why or a solution. basically my mongrels seems to work fine. i am running three clusters all which are monitored by monit. monit has the ability to restart a mongrel if it doesn''t pass a port connection test. so the problem is that after some time. aprox. 6hrs. to 20hrs. after clusters are started, the mongrels get

Hi guys, Does anyone know if mongrel has a built-in timeout for requests that take too long? If so, how do you increase it? I''ve found that some server requests are timing out. Complicated requests are already being farmed out to asynchronous processes. But some of the more basic requests are timing out when we have our peak server load in the mornings (the bottleneck is the

Hello, I''m running a Rails application which must sort and manipulate a lot of data which are loaded in memory. The Rails app runs on 2 mongrel processes. When I first load the app, both are 32Mb in memory. After some days, both are between 200Mb and 300Mb. My question is : is there some kind of garbage collector in Mongrel? I never see the two Mongrel processes memory footprint

Hi, I''m doing development with Mongrel 1.0.1 on Ruby 1.8.4 / OS X 10.4.10, and I''ve found that often when I shut down my server with ^C, it hangs for a while, gobbling up all CPU. Sometimes it stops after a few seconds, sometimes it''s run for several minutes at least. This happens across all the apps I develop on, but it seems to hang longer after

Hi guys, I''ve been chasing a problem in my web-stack: Lighttpd -> Mongrel -> Rails, and found a problem with the interaction of Lighttpd and Mongrel. If a request takes more than 5 seconds, Lighty will retry it - and then the requests / responses get mixed up in Lighty and it returns a bad response to the client. Not good. I''m convinced that the problem is

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

Hi I posted this to the Ruby on Rails Talk group but I thought I''d post it here too as it''s probably a more appropriate group. Hope this is ok. I''m running a 2-instance Mongrel cluster behind Apache 2.2.4 with Rails 1.2.3. If no requests are received by the application for several hours (this usually happens overnight) then Mongrel stops responding and no requests are

Hello, I am running mongrel 1.1 in production mode behind a lighttpd with mod_proxy. At first everything works fine, however, after a few days, the mongrel servers stop answering at all, even if I try to connect to them directly. I have checked logs but there is no sign of anything at all, and even when there was not a single request for a few days, it did freeze, and that on repeated occasions.

Anybody seen this message before? I see it over and over in one of my mongrel processes log files. I''ve never seen it before today. /usr/local/bin/mongrel_rails:16Mon May 14 20:44:30 +0000 2007: Error calling Dispatcher.dispatch #<Mongrel::TimeoutError: Mongrel timed out this thread: shutdown>Thread #<Thread:0x2ae6288dbc40 sleep> is too old, killing. Thanks, Pete

I recently got into using RoR, and the only issue that concerned me was the apparently complexity of deployment. Setting up fastcgi can be a bit of a pain, and I was hoping that the Rails community would come up with something simpler. Mongrel was recommended to me from someone on my local Ruby user group. It was trivial to install as a Gem on my Linux desktop and the FreeBSD server that I am

Hi guys, I''m looking for a way to pass environment variables to my Rails app via Mongrel. I want to conditionally execute code in environment.rb based on these environment variables. Background: 1. I have some special stuff I want to do when my Rails app first starts 2. So, stuff it in environment.rb in after_initialize, right? 3. Not this time. I have several other background

I''m trying to sent a file to the iphone (which requires byte-range request support) using the rails send_file method. However, this fails, I think because of mongrel. I think so because if I send the iphone a file handled by nginx, it plays it fine. But then when I serve the file with rails the iphone can''t play it. Any ideas? Alex

Hello all... I know its been a while since the last one, but a new prerelease is available with a gratuitous increase in version numbers! gem install mongrel_cluster --source http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/ This one has some new features in it that need to be tested on all unix platforms. Please run --clean and cluster::status on every *nix you can find. I run linux so the rest are up

Good morning all, I''ve been using the imap_authenticatable plugin for about a year now without incident. All of a sudden, I tried logging in this morning and this error is showing up in the logs. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this or how to fix it? Thanks, Pete NoMethodError (undefined method `disconnect'' for nil:NilClass):