Mongrel: Serving, Deploying, and Extending Your Ruby Applications

Matt Pelletier, Zed Shaw

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 interestingand helpful for your own pursuits.Section 1: What This Short Cut Covers 4Section 2: Introduction 6Section 3: Getting Started 13Section 4: Configurations 20Section 5: Production Deployment 37Section 6: Extending Mongrel 60Section 7: Debugging 79Section 8: Performance 90Section 9: Security 96Resources 103Acknowledgments 105About the Authors 106″