mrocstat – Mongrel pROCess title information stats August 18, 2008
Posted by John Dewey in Command Line, Mongrel, Plugins & Gems, Ruby, WebServers.add a comment
I wrote a little tool which reports Mongrel’s process title information when using the mongrel_proctitle plugin. There is a gem which reports similar information, however, I like bundling utility scripts as SVN externals with my applications.
multi-port memcache init script August 16, 2008
Posted by John Dewey in Code, Configuration, Memcached.add a comment
We use memcached quite a bit, and deploy it as a farm of many processes across many systems. I wanted to share a memcached multi-port init script. See the README for usage. Script is based off “The Commando Pattern“, and could use some reworking (especially around the port definition area).
Disable mongrel mod_proxy_balancer workers via Capistrano August 15, 2008
Posted by John Dewey in Capistrano, Configuration, Deployment, Mongrel, Rails, WebServers.add a comment
I created a Capistrano task for disabling workers inside a given balancer, from Daniel Wharton’s Deploying Rails post.
Here’s the pastie. BTW I really hate linking off to pastie for these things. Any suggestions?
The task disables the worker, and is not specific to Mongrel.
memcache ruby 1.8.5 problems August 14, 2008
Posted by John Dewey in Memcached, Rails, Rake, Ruby, Solaris.1 comment so far
We have some boxes at Joyent and for one reason or another, they are still on 1.8.5. We memcached an expensive Solr query, but ran into intermittent 500 errors.
Look at the odd stacktrace, with references to rake. Anyways, long story short – an upgrade to 1.8.6 fixed the problem. Yeah Yeah Yeah, I know — bad us — we should have upgraded long ago.
ActionView::TemplateError (wrong number of arguments (1 for 2))
on line #15 of topics/_search_result.html.erb:
Reloading classes in RSpec August 11, 2008
Posted by John Dewey in Code, Example, RSpec, Ruby.add a comment
I had a class where methods could change a class variable’s structure on load. However, RSpec doesn’t reload a class, so testing
these methods is difficult.
One can reload a class inside RSpec by adding a before task:
describe SimplyTabby, "remove_system_information class method" do
before(:each) do
Object.send(:remove_const, 'Clazz')
load 'clazz.rb'
end
it "should ..."
...
end
end
