# Exciting Rails News! - amazing deployment option!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exciting-rails-news-amazing-deployment-option/128218>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 5, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exciting-rails-news-amazing-deployment-option/128218 "2008-02-05T23:14:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crenner)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exciting-rails-news-amazing-deployment-option/128218/1 "2008-02-05T23:14:22Z")

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Tired of having deployment woes when running multiple rails  
applications??? …maintaining mongrel\_clusters and all crap? Well here  
is the solution :

[http://switchpipe.org/](http://switchpipe.org/)

SwitchPipe can:

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* automatically manage clusters of multiple applications, including

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port number management  
\* maintain and update application configurations “on the fly”  
\* timeout any backend app instances that haven’t been used for a  
certain period of time  
\* keep process and memory usage to a minimum, as backend app  
clusters don’t need to run constantly  
\* adhere your personal choices for timeouts and maximum numbers of  
processes

its easy to use

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**Author:** ![crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crenner)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exciting-rails-news-amazing-deployment-option/128218/2 "2008-02-05T23:26:35Z")

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I love the idea and a big thanks to Peter C. and presumably yourself  
for putting together. However, it is very new and I am still skeptical  
that it would be safe to use in production. Would you say that it is  
production ready at this point?

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**Author:** ![crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crenner)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exciting-rails-news-amazing-deployment-option/128218/3 "2008-02-06T00:40:24Z")

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On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Chris R. wrote:

> Tired of having deployment woes when running multiple rails  
> applications??? …maintaining mongrel\_clusters and all crap? Well  
> here  
> is the solution :
> 
> [http://switchpipe.org/](http://switchpipe.org/)

You did this in three weeks? Amazing.

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**Author:** ![crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crenner)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exciting-rails-news-amazing-deployment-option/128218/4 "2008-02-06T11:46:58Z")

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> You did this in three weeks? Amazing.

It wasn’t me!! it was Peter C…