WEBrick freezes overnight

rubyonrails-talk
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Each morning when I return to work, I find that my WEBrick server has stopped working. The process is still running, but when I try to connect to it with a web browser, the browser doesn't get any response back. Usually when this happens I cannot control-c the process to shut it down, and not even "kill" works-- I have to get rid of it with kill -9. I then restart it and it runs fine for the rest of the day.

Is this a known problem with WEBrick? Or does it reflect some configuration problem?

I am running WEBrick on RedHat Enterprise Linux.

Thanks,         --Paul

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Yeah, it’ll do that. Most folks use Mongrel now.

sudo gem install mongrel

Recent versions of Rails (1.2.x) use Mongrel when you run script\server if you have it installed.

Otherwise, start it with

mongrel_rails start -d

That runs it in the background on port 3000 in dev mode.

Stop it with

mongrel_rails stop

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A lot of current documents, books etc. about Rails clearly state that WEBrick is to be used only for development and testing, and never for production. Perhaps you missed that, Paul.

Like Brian said, that's why Mongrel was created.

Cheers,

Luciano