[ANN] Mongrel Web Server 0.3.13 OFFICIAL Release

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Finally! I’ve released Mongrel 0.3.13 OFFICIALLY to the public for
better or worse. This release is pretty huge compared to previous
releases. It’s got oodles of fixes, design improvements, hosting
enhancements, win32 changes, and the release even works with the latest
cygwin.

Read all about it at http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/news.html

GETTING 0.3.13

Most people do this:

$ gem install mongrel

And then go to town. It is 0.3.13 so you shouldn’t run this right on
your production site, but instead test it with your app before going
production.

WIN32

Things have changed for the win32 world, but hopefully for the better.
The only annoyance is you install one more thing to get the service
support:

$ gem install mongrel
$ gem install mongrel_service

This release fixes the problem where upgrading moves the service runner
script, so future upgrades will be much smoother.

The other big change is that you’ll have to re-install your services and
learn to use mongrel_rails service:: commands. Read
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/win32.html for complete information.

** There is a bug in win32-service that prevents us from shutting down
properly. Just ignore the exception complaint.**

As a side note, this release also works well with cygwin, and you can
even run your mongrel servers in daemon mode just like on Unix. It’s
slower but might mean you can do capistrano and mongrel_cluster support
in the future. Very hot.

DOCUMENTATION

The list of stuff in this release is pretty big, so read through this
documentation to get an idea of what’s changed:

There’s currently documentation for deploying under Pound, Lighttpd,
Litespeed, and other goodies. Documentation is in the works for lots of
other stuff, but if you see a blank page then feel free to volunteer.

BUGS

Report the bugs at
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=5145&group_id=1306&func=browse and
feel free to join the mailing list at
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users if you want to get
announcements or ask questions.

Enjoy the weekend! And thanks to all the people who wrote
documentation, tested pre-releases, and begged me to release earlier.

–
Zed A. Shaw

http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/

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I’ve recently came across this project and am anxious to get it
implemented. I just have a question (actually a couple):

I’ve attempted to do a gem update (had already installed mongrel) and
didn’t receive the update. Is the convention for mongrel always going
to be an install?

I looked at the mongrel site and noticed the email lists. Is there
anyone to sign up for announcement emails like this one?

Actually that just doesn’t go for Mongrel. Is there an announcements
lists somewhere? I really don’t have the time to read through user
posts every day and with this volume, it would be easy for me to miss
something. However, I really would like to keep up with project updates
and new projects.

I’m looking forward to my move to Mongrel. Thanks for the all the hard
work.

-andy

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On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 20:25 +0200, Andrew S. wrote:

I’ve recently came across this project and am anxious to get it
implemented. I just have a question (actually a couple):

Cool, here’s the answers.

I’ve attempted to do a gem update (had already installed mongrel) and
didn’t receive the update. Is the convention for mongrel always going
to be an install?

Update should work, but sometimes it doesn’t. That’s typically why I
say to use install. Typically the update fails for folks who have extra
weirdness in their gem setup though.

If you don’t get the update, try it again as some of the mirrors are
slow to update for some folks.

I looked at the mongrel site and noticed the email lists. Is there
anyone to sign up for announcement emails like this one?

Yeah, the mongrel list is fairly low traffic, so signing up for it and
doing a filter rule will probably work for you.

Actually that just doesn’t go for Mongrel. Is there an announcements
lists somewhere? I really don’t have the time to read through user
posts every day and with this volume, it would be easy for me to miss
something. However, I really would like to keep up with project updates
and new projects.

I try to tag announcementes with [ANN] in the subject line, and many
other people do too. If you did a filter for that you can subscribe to
most ruby lists and then get only the announcements.

I’m looking forward to my move to Mongrel. Thanks for the all the hard
work.

Thanks. Let me know how it works.

–
Zed A. Shaw

http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/

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Zed S. wrote:

Finally! I’ve released Mongrel 0.3.13 OFFICIALLY to the public for
better or worse. This release is pretty huge compared to previous

My congrats to all who worked on this! I begun working with the setup
using LiteSpeed (why haven’t I noticed this cool web server before!?!).
I’m really favoring Litespeed and Mongrel now after any other
alternatives. I’m moving my server over from Lighty and FastCGI to
Litespeed and Mongrel.