keeping mongrel running on *nix

[Josh]

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.

[Isak Hansen]

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>
<http://blog.codahale.com/2006/06/19/time-for-a-grown-up-server-rails-mongrel-apache-capistrano-and-you>

Isak

[Isak Hansen]

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

Isak