Targetting individual rails server processes?

rubyonrails-talk
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Is it generally possible to send requests to specific, individual rails server processes? From within the walls, that is, not externally.

My concrete purpose is to clear caches of data loaded from the database without having to restart the server process.

With the common Mongrel (et al.) + load balancer setup, each server process has its own port and presumably the relevant information is accessible from the deployment specification. I have no idea how things are with passenger.

Michael

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I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but if I need to send a request directly to a specific Mongrel/Thin instance (bypassing the load balancer), I just call it like: http://mongrel/thin-server:8000 (or whatever port you need)

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Yes, with Mongrel and similarly load-balanced servers this works. But how about Passenger?

Michael