keeping mongrel running on *nix

rubyonrails-talk
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i found a great recipe on creating a launchd item for mongrel so that all of the mongrel servers can be start automatically when the computer is rebooted.

http://blog.neontology.com/articles/2006/07/08/mongrel-with-launchd-and-lighttpd

what would be the equivalent of this on my production server? currently, after every reboot, i am having to ssh into the computer and run mongrel_rails start.

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Exactly how you add/create a system service is fairly platform dependent i think, and probably better answered elsewhere. -- In brief you create a script for starting and stopping your tasks, then assign that script to the proper run levels somehow.

On a production server I think you should also consider mongrel_cluster, which makes it easier to manage several processes/applications at once.

I pieced my vps setup together following the two articles below: <http://www.entanke.se/blog/2006/06/26/setup-of-ruby-rails-mongrel-and-pound-on-a-vps&gt; <http://blog.codahale.com/2006/06/19/time-for-a-grown-up-server-rails-mongrel-apache-capistrano-and-you&gt;

Isak

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These are also good reads: <http://notrocketsurgery.com/articles/2006/08/27/nginx-yet-another-rails-deployment-option&gt; <http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/mongrel_cluster.html&gt;

Isak