Ferret DRb on windows?

Ruby Apps Ferret
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i’m running a bunch of proxybalanced mongrels on a windows server.
and since the memory consumption of all those mongrels is getting too
high i wanted to set up the DRb’ed ferret server.

but script/ferret_start doesn’t work and seems to be written for linux
(unix) only.

is there a way to run it on windows?

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On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 03:59:47PM +0200, neongrau __ wrote:

i’m running a bunch of proxybalanced mongrels on a windows server.
and since the memory consumption of all those mongrels is getting too
high i wanted to set up the DRb’ed ferret server.

but script/ferret_start doesn’t work and seems to be written for linux
(unix) only.

is there a way to run it on windows?

yes, see there:

http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/

cheers,
Jens

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awesome!

thanks alot!

i was searching google like crazy and couldn’t find anything myself.

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today i’ve upgraded to the latest trunk to use the new :page / :per_page
options.
but since then i can’t start the service anymore :frowning:

Initializing FerretDaemon…
Starting Ferret DRb server…
c:/test_app/script/ferret_daemon:69:in service_init' : undefined methodstart’ for ActsAsFerret::Remote::Server:Class
(
NoMethodError
)

from c:/test_app/script/ferret_daemon:88:in `mainloop’

from c:/test_app/script/ferret_daemon:88

was there a change in the DRb part that breaks s.th. on windows?

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ok, just tested svn rev. 257 (the one before the “unified drb server
start/stop script by Peter J.” and that one works.

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neongrau __ wrote:

ok, just tested svn rev. 257 (the one before the “unified drb server
start/stop script by Peter J.” and that one works.

Guys,

I have been at this for 3 days now with no luck getting a DRb server
going. I have a production site on a Windows box with Apache, 5 mongrels
and using aaf rev. 257 (as suggested here) and ferret 0.11.4 (mswin32).

I cannot even get ferret_daemon going on the console.

ruby script/ferret_daemon -c -e production

gives me

Initializing FerretDaemon…
Starting Ferret DRb server…
script/ferret_daemon:69:in service_init': undefined methodstart’ for
ActsAsFe
rret::Remote::Server:Class (NoMethodError)
from script/ferret_daemon:51:in initialize' from script/ferret_daemon:87:innew’
from script/ferret_daemon:87

I have tried everything … or so it seems. Various versions of ferret
and aaf have been installed, uninstalled, patched and burnt… no luck.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thank you,

Karthik

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neongrau __ wrote:

Karthik Reddy wrote:

Initializing FerretDaemon…
Starting Ferret DRb server…
script/ferret_daemon:69:in service_init': undefined methodstart’ for
ActsAsFe
rret::Remote::Server:Class (NoMethodError)
from script/ferret_daemon:51:in initialize' from script/ferret_daemon:87:innew’
from script/ferret_daemon:87

this looks like the error i got with any newer revision than 257

can you double check that you have that exact revison?

i’m also using “ferret-0.11.5-mswin32” now.

and “ruby 1.8.5 (2007-06-07 patchlevel 52) [i386-mswin32]”
(because i had issues with 1.8.6 and the official 1.8.5 has an earlier
patchlevel with a massive memory leak when using the ADO driver for
MSSQL).

and since i’ve switched to using pure ASCII in my index it’s working
quite nicely

Wow, thank you for that quick reponse there neongrau.

I am using ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i386-mswin32], my
database is on mysql. I was running “ferret-0.11.5-mswin32” before and
have switched back to it now (after your reply).

Definitely got revision 257 of aaf.

Should I try updating ruby? How would I get to your patchlevel?

Cheers - K

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Karthik Reddy wrote:

Initializing FerretDaemon…
Starting Ferret DRb server…
script/ferret_daemon:69:in service_init': undefined methodstart’ for
ActsAsFe
rret::Remote::Server:Class (NoMethodError)
from script/ferret_daemon:51:in initialize' from script/ferret_daemon:87:innew’
from script/ferret_daemon:87

this looks like the error i got with any newer revision than 257

can you double check that you have that exact revison?

i’m also using “ferret-0.11.5-mswin32” now.

and “ruby 1.8.5 (2007-06-07 patchlevel 52) [i386-mswin32]”
(because i had issues with 1.8.6 and the official 1.8.5 has an earlier
patchlevel with a massive memory leak when using the ADO driver for
MSSQL).

and since i’ve switched to using pure ASCII in my index it’s working
quite nicely

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Karthik Reddy wrote:

Definitely got revision 257 of aaf.
thats really strange, i don’t remember that i did any modifications but
if you want i could mail what i currently have in my plugins dir.

Should I try updating ruby? How would I get to your patchlevel?
worth a try, just browse their ftp server, should be ftp.ruby-lang.org

maybe it has s.th. to do with the win32-service gem, which one do you
have?
(“win32-service-0.5.2-mswin32” is the one i got atm)