Daemonizing Mongrel

is the current darling of the Ruby on Rails world, and for a very good reason – it is an excellent server for your Rails applications. Recently I switched to using Mongrel behind Apache running mod_proxy and I’ve had no complaints with it.

Before anyone points it out, yes there were some issues with this server recently but they were caused by mod_mono hogging all the memory, and not Mongrel/Rails. Once I disabled Mono normality was restored.

I did have one minor niggle though. After restarting my server a couple of times during the aforementioned Mono problems I had to restart Mongrel manually. I knew there was a better way to do it, but I didn’t know how. Now I do…

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