Mongrel (Digital Shortcut): Serving, Deploying, and Extending Your Ruby Applications

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

This short cut is an introduction and guide to Mongrel, a fast, versatile RubyWeb server. If you build or manage Web applications, this will be a usefulreference as you set up and use Mongrel in your development and productionenvironments, as well as a handbook for how you can extend Mongrel to suityour own needs.

In addition to covering how to use and extend Mongrel, we also review anumber of topics that we consider "Best Practices" for modern software development,deployment, and performance testing. We discuss these in thecontext of using Mongrel, but they should be considered applicable to anysoftware project. Our own work has always benefited from seeing the techniquesof others, so we hope that sharing the experience, approach, andphilosophy that went into designing and developing Mongrel will be interesting and helpful for your own pursuits.

Section 1: What This Short Cut Covers 4

Section 2: Introduction 6

Section 3: Getting Started 13

Section 4: Configurations 20

Section 5: Production Deployment 37

Section 6: Extending Mongrel 60

Section 7: Debugging 79

Section 8: Performance 90

Section 9: Security 96

Resources 103

Acknowledgments 105

About the Authors 106

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Mongrel (Digital Shortcut): Serving, Deploying, and Extending Your Ruby Applications

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

This short cut is an introduction and guide to Mongrel, a fast, versatile RubyWeb server. If you build or manage Web applications, this will be a usefulreference as you set up and use Mongrel in your development and productionenvironments, as well as a handbook for how you can extend Mongrel to suityour own needs.

In addition to covering how to use and extend Mongrel, we also review anumber of topics that we consider "Best Practices" for modern software development,deployment, and performance testing. We discuss these in thecontext of using Mongrel, but they should be considered applicable to anysoftware project. Our own work has always benefited from seeing the techniquesof others, so we hope that sharing the experience, approach, andphilosophy that went into designing and developing Mongrel will be interesting and helpful for your own pursuits.

Section 1: What This Short Cut Covers 4

Section 2: Introduction 6

Section 3: Getting Started 13

Section 4: Configurations 20

Section 5: Production Deployment 37

Section 6: Extending Mongrel 60

Section 7: Debugging 79

Section 8: Performance 90

Section 9: Security 96

Resources 103

Acknowledgments 105

About the Authors 106

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Mongrel (Digital Shortcut): Serving, Deploying, and Extending Your Ruby Applications

Mongrel (Digital Shortcut): Serving, Deploying, and Extending Your Ruby Applications

by Matt Pelletier, Zed Shaw
Mongrel (Digital Shortcut): Serving, Deploying, and Extending Your Ruby Applications

Mongrel (Digital Shortcut): Serving, Deploying, and Extending Your Ruby Applications

by Matt Pelletier, Zed Shaw

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Overview

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

This short cut is an introduction and guide to Mongrel, a fast, versatile RubyWeb server. If you build or manage Web applications, this will be a usefulreference as you set up and use Mongrel in your development and productionenvironments, as well as a handbook for how you can extend Mongrel to suityour own needs.

In addition to covering how to use and extend Mongrel, we also review anumber of topics that we consider "Best Practices" for modern software development,deployment, and performance testing. We discuss these in thecontext of using Mongrel, but they should be considered applicable to anysoftware project. Our own work has always benefited from seeing the techniquesof others, so we hope that sharing the experience, approach, andphilosophy that went into designing and developing Mongrel will be interesting and helpful for your own pursuits.

Section 1: What This Short Cut Covers 4

Section 2: Introduction 6

Section 3: Getting Started 13

Section 4: Configurations 20

Section 5: Production Deployment 37

Section 6: Extending Mongrel 60

Section 7: Debugging 79

Section 8: Performance 90

Section 9: Security 96

Resources 103

Acknowledgments 105

About the Authors 106


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780132701778
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 10/18/2006
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 106
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Matt Pelletier is a partner at EastMedia, a software, mobile, and business development firm based in New York City. In conjunction with technology partner VeriSign, EastMedia provided commercial sponsorship of Mongrel for the Apache Heraldry project, where it serves as a key component of the Identity 2.0 Software stack. Matt is cofounder of NYC.rb, the New York City Ruby group.

Zed Shaw is the original and primary author of Mongrel (as well as a number of other Ruby projects) and plays an active role in the growing Mongrel community, answering questions, responding to feature requests and bug reports, and helping troubleshoot and work with the growing needs and uses.

Table of Contents

Section 1: What This Short Cut Covers 4

Section 2: Introduction 6

Section 3: Getting Started 13

Section 4: Configurations 20

Section 5: Production Deployment 37

Section 6: Extending Mongrel 60

Section 7: Debugging 79

Section 8: Performance 90

Section 9: Security 96

Resources 103

Acknowledgments 105

About the Authors 106

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