What's New in Edge Rails: Mongrel Support 5

Posted by ryan
at 4:26 PM on Monday, June 26, 2006

The script/server startup script that boots either WEBrick or Lighttpd has gotten an update that will now start mongrel if it detects it on your system.

If you have both lighty and mongrel installed then the script will startup lighty mongrel, and of course WEBrick is the fall back if nothing else is available.

As usual, you can force startup of a specific server by passing it in on the command line:

script/server mongrel or script/server lighttpd

Looks like mongrel’s quick rise to prominence continues with the official backing of Rails…

tags: rails, rubyonrails, mongrel

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  1. jas – June 18, 2006 @ 02:17 PM
    has anyone got a better tutorial on getting static files served by lighttpd and mongrel for the dynamic requests? this is the only one i can find http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/lighttpd.html
  2. mike – June 18, 2006 @ 02:17 PM
    Very cool! Not only about the mongrel support, but someone blogging about what's new in Edge Rails. Subscribing to the RSS in Trac is too low level, but I want to know what new features are under development, when they'll be stable, etc.. Whoever does the work to summarize that info will have a popular blog (witness the traffic the guy got who wrote up what's new in 1.1)
  3. Brian – June 18, 2006 @ 04:46 PM
    Yeah, for sure. Thanks for wading through Trac for us :) Keep up the good work.
  4. Ryan Daigle – June 18, 2006 @ 04:46 PM
    Thanks guys - it's more a self-learning excercise for me, but glad to see others are getting something from my posts as well.
  5. Raymond Lim – September 17, 2006 @ 11:10 PM
    I think there are still serious problems with Mongrel that need to be addressed. I use the latest trunk release of Mephisto and it launched a Mongrel server by default. The server appears to crash randomly for no reason at all and provides esoteric error messages that are rather difficult to decipher. Now granted I'm new to rails and it may have something to do with my customisation of Mephisto, but really whenever these servers crash locally it's just a real pain trying to figure out what caused it. Was it Mephisto? Was it Mongrel? It also appears to happen mostly when my Mac has remained idle for some time with no new requests to the web server for a prolonger period. Any ideas on what could be the issue? I'm inclined to think its Mongrel..
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