Controller/Action Problem

rubyonrails-talk
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hey guys,

i've got the following problem: i call an action called "execute_algorithms". one codeline of this action tries to execute the following command:

parser = LibXML::XML::Parser.file("http://localhost:3000/XMLFiles/results.xml"\)

but it won't work. with an url of a foreign server it works. so it seems to me, that rails can't execute an action (over HTTP) while executing another one? Is that right and how can i solve this problem? I'm working with Mongrel.

It would be so great if you guys could help me!!

Greetz, Tobe

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Run more than one mongrel and proxy through a web listener like Apache or nginx. If you can only service one request at time, that request will never be able to get another one through at the same time.

-Rob

Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com   Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com

  rab@GaslightSoftware.com

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Hi Tobias,

Another alternative to Rob's suggestion, ... if you can, I'd recommend bailing on mongrel altogether, and just switch to running your rails apps under passenger (ie mod_rails / mod_rack) via apache or ngnix. Passenger can handle more than one request to your rails app at a time, thus no need for setting up and managing mongrel instances or proxy'd mongrel clusters, etc.

Ever since I switched to using passenger, both for development and production envs, I've never gone back to using mongrel to serve rails apps.

Jeff