I've jus saw that mongrel's last updat was about one year ago...
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=diff&version=35
has it been disontinued?
is there any other lightweight alternative for a windows development box?
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Well, a lot of projects don't get updates because they work just fine and just don't need any changes.
Maybe that's the case?
alamar
2009-05-15 15:24:42
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The original author Zed Shaw no longer maintains it, but it is still suitable for deploying rails applications on a workstation as an alternative to webrick (the Rails default).
If you're not using Windows as a production environment, I'd suggest setting up a VM configured w/ your production server's rails engine.
catalpa
2009-05-15 15:35:13
there's no production server at all, we are just using redmine on development environment...
opensas
2009-05-16 13:10:42
+3
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Since mongrel hasnt been updated in such a long time there are certain features like --prefix which no longer work with the most reason version of rails (2.3+)
I would recommend using thin server instead as it seems to be the natural evolution of mongrel and the project maintainers are actively developing it.
Corban Brook
2009-05-15 17:14:16
I tried thin and it seems to wokr finehere is a guide to configure it as a servicehttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/877943/how-to-configure-a-rails-app-redmine-to-run-as-a-service-on-windows
opensas
2009-05-20 17:35:25
+1
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Mongrel works fine in production for Windows and other OS. It's not being developed b/c it works fine for the majority of cases. There is still conversation periodically on the mongrel-users listserv about fixing this corner-case or that one. But my experience with mongrel is that it works great.
I tested thin a while back also and it works fine also. I did uncover a caching bug, but the maintainer posted a fix quickly, which was nice. I think if you found a bug in Mongrel, the current maintainers would also fix it quickly.
I did a comparison of thin vs mongrel here:
http://www.misuse.org/science/2008/04/07/thin-vs-mongrel-a-ruby-on-rails-performance-shootout/
And also another one looking at various pipelining techniques (nginx fair proxy module vs unix sockets). Thin does seem to exhibit some weird clustering behavior under heavy load - but that could be fixed by now.
http://www.misuse.org/science/2008/04/07/thin-ruby-on-rails-nginx-fair-proxy-performance-testing/
science
2009-05-20 17:45:32