# \[ANN\] 0.3.13.4 Pre-Release -- Almost Ready **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 8, 2006, 11:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-0-3-13-4-pre-release-almost-ready/101861 "2006-08-08T11:47:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/da6949/32.png) [@Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zed_S)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 11:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-0-3-13-4-pre-release-almost-ready/101861/1 "2006-08-08T11:47:20Z")
Hi folks, I just put a pre-release of Mongrel up for people to try. You can install it with: gem install mongrel --source=[http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/) And try out your application and confirm the stuff works. USE RFUZZ AND RUBY If you find a bug, I’d appreciate it if you can go grab RFuzz (or use net/http) and work up a little bit of Ruby that demonstrates the bug. If you do this then I’ll include it in the RFuzz test suite I’m doing and the bug will never show it’s ugly head again. Same goes for problems with command line options. Just work up a little ruby that starts mongrel the way you start it, tests for the error, then stops mongrel. CHANGE LOG Knocked out a bunch of bugs people reported so far: - Makes Mongrel act like WEBrick re: REQUEST\_URI, PATH\_INFO, SCRIPT\_INFO, and QUERY\_STRING. This should fix redirects, but in order to make it work I’ve added REQUEST\_PATH as well which is technically PATH\_INFO+SCRIPT\_INFO. - Mongrel now includes _all_ of the requested URI even if Mongrel doesn’t have a clue what it should do with it. Let’s hope we don’t see tons of requests for proxy crap (like \* and full hostnames) to Rails apps. Could get interesting. - Expanded some of the size limits that Mongrel enforces to accommodate the new REQUEST\_URI changes. REQUEST\_URI can now be 2k. If it’s over 2k then you need to use a FORM POST you dumbass. - REQUEST\_PATH can only be 1k. (only? man). - Fixes the PID files and log files confusion. Mongrel now does absolutely not transforming of your -P and -l settings (pid\_file, log\_file in the configs). This means that it should work as expected, and that everyone should use absolute paths if they’re going to set it, otherwise leave it to log/mongrel.log and log/mongrel.pid. - DirHandler directory listings are more consistent thanks to a patch from carmen whats-your-name (no relation to Carmen San Diego). - Removed the extraneous ; in the C code that was choking the Sun C compilers. Is there someone at Sun I can kick to death over this? - Removes junk from the packaged gem such as the .so and test/coverage files. - Extra checks on the --prefix option to make sure they get it right. It’s a _path_ prefix folks. That means it starts with a / but don’t end it in a /. - SENDFILE IS BANISHED! If you have it installed Mongrel ignores it. It causes way too many instability problems and isn’t really worth the trouble. Since I can’t trust that everyone will remove it, I’ve just ripped that code out. - Dan K. fixed up the conditional responses to not use Unmodified-Since. - Fixes up the IO loop so that it is more exact in it’s processing and error handling. - The start of a full RFC compliance test using RFuzz. This test suite basically breaks down the RFC, fires up Rails or other web apps, and then makes sure they can follow the RFC. So far I’ve got the conditional response stuff going, a few lame duck things about rails tested, and the layout of sections 3 and 4 set. Contributors are welcome on this. Enjoy and report those bugs. The sooner I get 0.3.13.4 out and happy the sooner I can get 0.4 done. – Zed A. Shaw > **[Zed A. shaw](https://zedshaw.com/)** > > Personal essays and writings by Zed A. Shaw. [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/) [http://www.railsmachine.com/](http://www.railsmachine.com/) – Need Mongrel support? ---
**Author:** ![Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/da6949/32.png) [@Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zed_S)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 12:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-0-3-13-4-pre-release-almost-ready/101861/2 "2006-08-08T12:57:30Z")
Sorry to ignore the Mongrel release and focus on RFuzz - but that looks seriously cool. It may have been mentioned at Railsconf - if I think of it - but lots of things were mentioned. Very glad I spotted it today though. Oh, on-thread - your Subject could do with the word “Mongrel” in it 🙂 Cheers Nic