gzip component with mongrel server

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I want to enable gzip component on my site and i m using mongrel server can you please tell me how to do it

If you're proxying through apache or nginx then the easiest way is to
get them to do gzipping. I don't believe mongrel will do it for you
out of the box.

Fred

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You might also have a look at a search engine called “Google”. Quite a few people use it nowadays to find information quickly. For example, a simple google search on “mongrel output compression” gave me this as the first result, “mongrel compression” yields the same page as the fourth result:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel-compres/

If you’re in doubt, that was a little bit of sarcasm and a pretty please to at least have a little search before posting these kinds of questions.

There was also a solution packed in a rails plugin a while ago. Don’t know if it still works, and it’s certainly not as good a solution as apache or nginx, but you could try the better output compression plugin (http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/better_output_compression). The big question however is if it will actually improve performance or slow it down.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt