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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5The developer got sick of the community and ditched it. – Peter D May 15 '09 at 15:21
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He had a big tirade about the Rails community when leaving, too. I'm too lazy and/or busy to find the link to it, though. – Powerlord May 15 '09 at 17:17
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1Zed Shaw removed his famous Rails is Ghetto post from his blog, but its probably saved out there somewhere. – Corban Brook May 15 '09 at 21:56
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http://web.archive.org/web/20080102040259/http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/rails_is_a_ghetto.html – Niteriter Feb 09 '10 at 18:37
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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.
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1I tried thin and it seems to wokr fine here is a guide to configure it as a service http://stackoverflow.com/questions/877943/how-to-configure-a-rails-app-redmine-to-run-as-a-service-on-windows – opensas May 20 '09 at 17:35
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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/
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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.
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there's no production server at all, we are just using redmine on development environment... – opensas May 16 '09 at 13:10