Recent Posts by Christophe Bunn

Topic: Deploying Rails Applications / Reverse Proxy and hard-coded URLs in Flex

Hi,

I’ve set up several “Production type” environments using this book: Mongrel (x2) + Apache in Win XP and Mongrel (x2) + Apache + IIS in Win 2K3. It really helped me out.

Unfortunately, the proxy plugin used when forwarding requests from IIS to Apache won’t work with my hard-coded URLs in a Flex interface… How can I solve this problem?

Interestingly (I know nothing about how Reverse Proxying works…), when I access the URL for a Rails function directly from the browser, instead of Flex code, it works correctly, as in:

http://localhost/mytest/my_class/my_function

where I would have accessed

http://localhost:8080/my_class/my_function with Apache alone…

Cheers,

Chris.

Topic: Deploying Rails Applications / Swiftiply

Ezra Zygmuntowicz (this book’s main author) wrote a very interesting and exciting presentation which mentions the use of Swiftiply for dispatching requests to a cluster of slightly modified Mongrels. The two main advantages are gained performance and the ability to add/suppress Mongrel instances without any server restarts.

Will the final book mention this very promising setup, or is the technology not mature enough?

Best regards,

Chris.

Topic: Deploying Rails Applications / mongrel_cluster in Windows

The book says mongrel_cluster doesn’t yet exist in Windows. A quick look in Google shows it has been released, but I’m not sure how reliable it is… It seems that people are having a hard time with it. Will the authors update the Windows installation chapter to reflect their experience with this new component?

Chris.