Posted by Andrew
Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:55:00 GMT
Rails committer Jamis Buck recently explained in this post why it is important not to use static FastCGI processes on shared webservers. AVLUX took Jamis’ helpful guidance and used it as a starting point to enable all its Rails hosting customers to manage their own FastCGI processes
At the end of this post Jamis writes:
“Note, however, that a reboot of the machine hosting your account will require you to run the spawn scripts for your applications again… I’m sure there’s a handy solution for that floating around somewhere, but I don’t know it offhand.”
At AVLUX this is how we facilitate our Rails developers managing their own dispatch.fcgi processes, and ensuring that they all run at startup:
Read more...
Posted in System Admin, Ruby on Rails, AVLUX | Tags avlux, fastcgi, howto, lighttpd, sysadmin | no comments | no trackbacks
Posted by Andrew
Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:42:00 GMT
Apple recently published a nice succinct tutorial on Ruby on Rails on their Developer website. Of course they point out that all members of the Rails core development team work with Macs. I have had the pleasure of working with several top notch Rails developers and in my experience they all do use Macs. I reckon it is same love for simple elegance applied to program development.
Reading over this article I get feeling that they have been spying on me. I too use TextMate and I recently set up Lighttpd to run on my PowerBook G4 to complement my RoR test environment. Their references for setting up Lighty in this article are the same ones I would recommend:
We will have more on Lighttpd in coming posts…
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Mac OS X | Tags howto, lighttpd, macosx, rubyonrails | no comments
