[DRE-maint] Mongrel - I'd like it for Ubuntu

[Neil Wilson]

Mongrel shouldn't be doing init handling IMHO. There are lots of other ways
of using it - Monit, Runit, Capistrano initiation. And you have absolutely
no idea which framework the user has in mind. Mongrel is more than just
Rails - it is used by Nitro, Camping and a host of others.

Mongrel should be treated as a ruby HTTP wrapper library with an example
program - 'mongrel_rails'.


Rgs

NeilW

-----Original Message-----
From: Gunnar Wolf [mailto:gwolf at gwolf.org]
Sent: 16 July 2007 16:37
To: Filipe
Cc: Neil Wilson; pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [DRE-maint] Mongrel - I'd like it for Ubuntu


Filipe dijo [Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:20:07PM -0300]:
> > I was wondering how complete the Mongrel package is. There doesn't
> > seem to be a lot happening to it at the moment and it seems to do the
> > job.
> >
> > Is there anything that is stopping it releasing into the wild? It's
> > just that the feature freeze for Ubuntu Gutsy is just around the
> > corner and it would be really useful if Mongrel was in there.
> >
> Hum... well... the only thing that is stopping it releasing into
> the wild is the lack of time to my uploaders revise and upload it :D
>
> Let's see if they can do it in the beginning of this week, then ubuntu
> Gutsy can ship it too.

Umh... Didn't I fall over you with a couple of questions? ;-)

Cannot really check it right now (as I'm on a contractor's office),
but points I remember were:

- It still does not integrate decently with Rails' "script/server"
  script:

$ ./script/server
=> Booting Mongrel (use 'script/server webrick' to force WEBrick)
=> Rails application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
Exiting
./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependen
cies.rb:488:in `load': no such file to load -- mongrel_rails
(MissingSourceFile)
											   from
./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependen
cies.rb:488:in `load'
											   from
./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependen
cies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in'
											   from
./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependen
cies.rb:488:in `load'
											   from
./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/servers/mongrel.rb:
60
											   from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require'
											   from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require'
											   from
./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependen
cies.rb:495:in `require'
											   from
./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependen
cies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in'
											   from
./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependen
cies.rb:495:in `require'
											   from
./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/server.rb:39
											   from ./script/server:3:in `require'
											   from ./script/server:3


- It also lacks any kind of init handling - or is that supposed to go
  into mongrel-cluster (which I have not reviewed yet)? Where are you
  taking mongrel-cluster from? (IIRC, you said you were splitting the
  source between both) I want to diverge as little as possible from
  upstream, otherwise it can become hellish in the long run. I even
  think we were not so bad off with the Gem unpacker I had set up in a
  previous iteration :)

Greetings,

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