Thin
Thanks to Thomas Glasgow, I've been told of a new lighter Mongrel web server called THIN. It's more-so a cut-down version of the Mongrel Web Server, with the added power of an Event machine and Rack parser.
Haven't tested it out, but intend to try it out on one of my apps, install it with...
sudo gem install thin
Thin - Rake Task
With the above I found a startup script similar to Monrel's .yml config file.
namespace :thin do
namespace :cluster do
desc 'Start thin cluster'
task :start => :environment do
`cd #{RAILS_ROOT}`
port_range = RAILS_ENV == 'development' ? 3 : 8
(ENV['SIZE'] ? ENV['SIZE'].to_i : 4).times do |i|
Thread.new do
port = ENV['PORT'] ? ENV['PORT'].to_i + i : ("#{port_range}
%03d" % i)
str = "thin start -d -p#{port} -Ptmp/pids/thin-#{port}.pid"
str += " -e#{RAILS_ENV}"
puts "Starting server on port #{port}..."
`#{str}`
end
end
end
desc 'Stop all thin clusters'
task :stop => :environment do
`cd #{RAILS_ROOT}`
Dir.new("#{RAILS_ROOT}/tmp/pids").each do |file|
Thread.new do
if file.starts_with?("thin-")
str = "thin stop -Ptmp/pids/#{file}"
puts "Stopping server on port #{file[/\d+/]}..."
`#{str}`
end
end
end
end
end
end
copy and paste it into a .rake task in your apps /lib/tasks directory.
then fire with...
rake thin:cluster:start
rake thin:cluster:stop
and...
rake thin:cluster:start RAILS_ENV=production SIZE=10 PORT=8000
- SIZE = cluster size (2 is usually enough)
- RAILS_ENV = environment (production, development or test)
- PORT = port range to start from (for 2 clusters it'll be 8000 and 8001)
Thanks to Stephen Celis for this.
Fedora Package Errors and Cleanups
Lately i've run into some problems with my Fedora package manager, inconsistent files and dropped repositories. However I think I've managed to cleanup this problem by first cleaning up my package managers metadata, db cache and doing a general tidyup with...
sudo yum clean all
sudo yum clean metadata
sudo yum clean dbcache
Then giving the once-over of my RPM repository,
sudo rpm -vv --initdb
This looked ok, but I wanted to make sure so I rebuilt my RPM repository,
sudo rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
sudo rpmdb -vv --rebuilddb
Now looking a little better,
Want to install Beryl + Compiz to get the 3D effects and cubed desktop next.
Update on Beryl
After hunting around I found that Beryl has been dropped in favour of Compiz, so don't go hunting for it because you won't find it.
