Re: [Mongrel] Why Rails + mongrel_cluster + load balancing doesn't work for us and the beginning of a solution

2006-09-21 Thread Alexander Lazic
On Mit 20.09.2006 11:18, Paul Butcher wrote: We have been searching for a Rails deployment architecture which works for us for some time. We've recently moved from Apache 1.3 + FastCGI to Apache 2.2 + mod_proxy_balancer + mongrel_cluster, and it's a significant improvement. But it still exhibits

[Mongrel] File uploads intermittent upon first form submission

2006-09-21 Thread Mike Evans
I have Mongrel 0.3.13.4 running Rails 1.1.6 behind Apache 2.2.3 with mod_proxy_balancer, mongrel_cluster 0.2.0 as per the documentation, and mongrel_upload_progress 0.2, on Fedora Core 4. I'm using a cluster of three Mongrels. I have an existing app which allows users to upload files, and

[Mongrel] Static files in public

2006-09-21 Thread Kris Leech
My question is about the static files in the Rails public folder. These files should be served by Apache instead of Mongrel, so do I need to upload these files to Apache's htdoc's or will Apache cache them the first time they are requested from Mongrel... Im not sure how this works? Many

Re: [Mongrel] How do you use Mongrel?

2006-09-21 Thread Carl Lerche
Well, right now I use mongrel for deploying my live rails apps. Pretty standard I guess. I've currently been using mongrel_cluster, but I would like to eventually use some kind of process monitoring (monit?). I have yet to really look into it though. The book really should cover how to use mongrel

Re: [Mongrel] How do you use Mongrel?

2006-09-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
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

Re: [Mongrel] Static files in public

2006-09-21 Thread Hendrik Stier
Hi! Take a look at this document: http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/ apache.html You should leave the static files in the public folder of your application, and configure Apache to use rewriting (see section Configuring Apache2). Regards, Hendrik Am 21.09.2006 um 16:27 schrieb Kris

Re: [Mongrel] How do you use Mongrel?

2006-09-21 Thread Vishnu Gopal
Hey,We use the following elements for our deployment:1. A hardware load balancer with two servers as backends, each running:2. One lighttpd instance, routed to a pound acting as a load balancer, each with: 3. Two mongrel instances.4. A monit process on each server monitoring pound, lighty

Re: [Mongrel] How do you use Mongrel?

2006-09-21 Thread Kirk Haines
On 9/20/06, Matt Pelletier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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,

Re: [Mongrel] Static files in public

2006-09-21 Thread hemant
On 9/21/06, Kris Leech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is about the static files in the Rails public folder. These files should be served by Apache instead of Mongrel, so do I need to upload these files to Apache's htdoc's or will Apache cache them the first time they are requested from

Re: [Mongrel] Why Rails + mongrel_cluster + load balancing doesn'twork for us and the beginning of a solution

2006-09-21 Thread Paul Butcher
Have you ever use haproxy http://haproxy.1wt.eu/ ?! In a word, no :-) He have the following feature which can help you: Thanks - sounds interesting. We'll give it a go! -- paul.butcher-msgCount++ Snetterton, Castle Combe, Cadwell Park... Who says I have a one track mind? MSN: [EMAIL

Re: [Mongrel] Spinning mongrels and SIGUSR1

2006-09-21 Thread Zed Shaw
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 19:22 -0700, Zed Shaw wrote: On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 18:26 -0400, Ian C. Blenke wrote: First off: Our clusters are LVS balanced Apache 2.2.3 + mod_proxy_balancer + gem mongrel 0.3.13.3 / mongrel_cluster 0.2 + memcached / gem memcache_client + gem rails 1.1.6 on debian

[Mongrel] Sync and Mutex compatible?

2006-09-21 Thread Steven Lumos
With Mongrel using Sync, are there any potential problems with actions that start threads and use Mutex? Steve ___ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users

Re: [Mongrel] thank you

2006-09-21 Thread carmen
On Thu Sep 21, 2006 at 07:52:05AM -0700, Carl Lerche wrote: You know, I'm going to add to this. I love mongrel. Simple, easy to use, flexible, etc... You're doing an amazing job with it :) mongrel is so easy to use, i dont even know im using it. actually removed all traces of webrick from