# Mongrel 1.0.2 on Ubuntu Feisty

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-1-0-2-on-ubuntu-feisty/118513>\
**Category:** Mongrel\
**Created:** [October 28, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-1-0-2-on-ubuntu-feisty/118513 "2007-10-28T01:26:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![andreim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@andreim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andreim)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-1-0-2-on-ubuntu-feisty/118513/1 "2007-10-28T01:26:52Z")

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Hi everybody,

I’ve been trying to setup a Ruby on Rails application on a Ubuntu Feisty  
machine and I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out why Nginx and  
mongrel\_cluster weren’t working. The setup was correct (based on some  
tutorials found on the internet), but there weren’t any pid files for  
the  
mongrels started.

In case anybody else has experienced the same problem, it seems that  
`gem install mongrel` will install version 1.0.2 (which is rather strange  
since  
there isn’t such a version on Rubyforge, it’s either 1.0.1 or 1.0.3)  
which  
is broken. I found a typo in configurator.rb on line 63 where instead of  
target\_gid it was just target\_id. Forcing version 1.0.3 fixes the  
problem.

However, I’m wondering why v. 1.0.2 gets installed. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![andreim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@andreim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andreim)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 1:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-1-0-2-on-ubuntu-feisty/118513/2 "2007-10-28T01:43:49Z")

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There’s been some problems with the Rubyforge gem index recently; Tom  
Copeland is working on the issue I think.

Evan

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**Author:** ![andreim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@andreim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andreim)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-1-0-2-on-ubuntu-feisty/118513/3 "2007-11-06T00:59:42Z")

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Andrei M. dijo [Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:18:22AM +0200]:

> there isn’t such a version on Rubyforge, it’s either 1.0.1 or 1.0.3) which  
> is broken. I found a typo in configurator.rb on line 63 where instead of  
> target\_gid it was just target\_id. Forcing version 1.0.3 fixes the problem.
> 
> However, I’m wondering why v. 1.0.2 gets installed. Any ideas?

Hi,

In Debian-like systems, I suggest you to install the ‘mongrel’  
package, even if I risk starting a new flamefest in here 😉 Having  
different package management systems in the same OS (in this case,  
.deb packages and Ruby Gems) can lead to anger and pain. And, as we  
all know, that’s just the first step down towards the Dark Side.

I’m unsure whether Ubuntu Feisty includes a packaged Mongrel - I’m  
currently co-maintainer for Mongrel in Debian, and it’s at 1.0.1  
(although I plan on upgrading today/tomorrow).

Greetings,

–  
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**Author:** ![andreim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@andreim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andreim)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 3:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-1-0-2-on-ubuntu-feisty/118513/4 "2007-11-06T03:54:57Z")

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Gunnar,

Come to #mongrel-dev on Freenode if you have any issues or questions.  
The setup.rb stuff which you probably use might be a bit shaky,  
because I’m not very experienced with it.

Evan

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**Author:** ![andreim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@andreim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andreim)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 1:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-1-0-2-on-ubuntu-feisty/118513/5 "2007-11-07T01:01:42Z")

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Evan W. dijo [Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:50:28PM -0500]:

> Gunnar,
> 
> Come to #mongrel-dev on Freenode if you have any issues or questions.  
> The setup.rb stuff which you probably use might be a bit shaky,  
> because I’m not very experienced with it.

Thanks,

A bit late, as the job was far too easy in the end 😉 Congratulations  
for such a clean release! I reported this setup.rb bug in the tracker:

[http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=15369&group\_id=1306&atid=5145](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=15369&group_id=1306&atid=5145)

Anyway - I have 1.0.4 ready, but it has not yet hit Debian as we just  
had a spectacular hardware crash in our main mirror machine :-/ I hope  
it will be fixed Real Soon Now ™.

Greetings,

–  
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