Interesting is also this page http://guides.rails.info/configuring.html which states under "2.Running Code Before Rails": To run some code before Rails itself is loaded, simply put it above the call to require 'rails/all' in your application.rb.
If I log boot strapping of rails, I get this different sequences: when using mongrel via script/server (notice boot.rb appears twice!!!): boot.rb environment.rb boot.rb application.rb when using mongrel via mongrel_rails: environment.rb boot.rb application.rb Note that while the latter option is the common way to start the application, the former option is what I must use to debug my rails application under Netbeans. So clearly, running code (that fetches custom specific command line options) before rails starts doesn't work well with either environment, let alone both. I've even tried to place such code inside environment.rb which is clearly loaded before application.rb and still had no luck. So far, the only way that worked for me is to modify library code and this is something a dread. Pete -----Original Message----- From: mongrel-users-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:mongrel-users-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Pete Sent: Wednesday, 14 April 2010 8:35 a.m. To: mongrel-users@rubyforge.org Subject: [Mongrel] Mongrel script and config options I need to pass some startup options on to my rails application. Using environment variables will not work because multiple mongrel clusters of my rails application (each of a slightly different flavour) served from a single code base can run concurrently and each cluster instance is activated via mongrel_service. Extra arguments passed in to either mongrel_rails service::install or mongrel_rails cause errors. The only documentation on the --script option I could find related to unix so I gave up on that thought. I also tried using the --config option, but I had the same problem there: as soon as I added an option to the YAML file that wasn't documented, mongrel complained with an error. The last one is a real nuisance. It just doesn't make sense that my config file should be restricted to content mongrel understands. Wouldn't it be a better approach to parse that file and look/apply the options mongrel recognises and provide a public interface so that other interested clients can access the config file? Or are there other ways to achieve this without resorting to modifying mongrel and mongrel services startup code? Pete _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
