Servers: Web Articles

• Passenger (mod_rails for Apache) launches
  David Heinemeier Hansson
  
• Putting the pane back into deployment
  Eloy Duran
  Describes how to use a preferences pane for controlling Passenger on OS X
• Installing Sphinx on OS X Leopard
  Clinton R. Nixon
  Building latest Sphinx on Mac OS 10.5.
• Ruby on Rails expert: Rails scales; Twitter shouldn't taint Ruby
  Larry Dignan
  Interview with Ezra Zygmuntowicz discussing where typical scaling problems really occur (in the database layer) and that the Twitter blame game is a red herring.
• AUTO_INCREMENT MySQL
  Conrad
  Work-around to problem of adding an alternate starting value for auto increment if IDs in your tables. Bug exists in MySQL.
• Running MySQL 5.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.2 [Client]
  Wolf Paulus
  
• Plugins - Seamless Database Pool
  
  
• Windows + Apache 2.0 + Ssl
  Chris Thompson
  Setting up Apache and SSL on Windows (2003)
• Apache+SSL Win32 HOWTO
  Balázs Bárány
  Setting up Apache and SSL on a variety of Windows Operating Systems
• How to Use SQLite in Ruby on Rails
  
  As with most of the Rails wiki, there’s a mix of outdated and useful information on this page.
• SQLite Tutorial
  Mike Chirico
  A general tutorial on using SQLite
• Announcing SQLite3/Ruby 1.2.0
  Jamis Buck
  
• SSH with Keys HOWTO
  Dave Aaldering
  
• Starling and Asynchronous Tasks in Ruby on Rails
  Rany Keddo and Bjorn Wolf
  Workling is a wrapper around asynchronous task runners such as Starling and Spawn.
• rush, the Ruby Shell
  Adam @ Heroku.
  
• Instant Rails with NetBeans
  Brian Leonard
  Installing Ruby on Rails via the Instant Rails distribution(which includes Ruby, Rails, Mongrel, MySQL, and Apache) for Windows XP (and Vista). Details how to hook everything up to work with the Netbeans IDE.
• mod_proxy_core got X-Sendfile Support
  
  Using X-Sendfile with lighttpd and mod_proxy_core.
• X-Sendfile
  
  How to use X-sendfile with lighttpd and FastCGI.
• Logging in Ruby on Rails
  Marty Andrews
  Brief intro to Ruby on Rails logging, and how to switch from the default logger to log4r.
• Maintainable Software: Rails Logging Tips
  Mike Naberezny
  Ruby on Rails comes prewired for logging using Logger from the Ruby Standard Library. This article demonstrates how to use the Rails logger, how to create your own logs, and offers some tips for debugging with console logging
• Rails Hosting: Best Hosting Services for Ruby On Rails
  
  
• Introduction to BackgrounDRb
  Ezra Zygmuntowicz
  An introduction to the Rails Plugin written by Ezra Zygmuntowicz. BackgrounDRB utilizes DRb to offload long running tasks from a Rails application. This article explains its design and use.
• RightScale: Launch your Rails App in minutes on Amazon EC2 using RightScale
  
  RightScale provides a turnkey solution for deploying Rails applications on Amazon’s EC-2.
• Rotating Rails Log Files
  Kevin Skoglund
  How to use logrotate to automatically rotate your Rails log files.
• Economical Use of Amazon S3 with Ruby on Rails
  Robert Dempsey
  
• Setting up Rails from source for CentOS
  
  
• Scale rails from one box to three, four and five
  Courtenay
  
• Mod rewrite tutorials
  
  An excellent series of tutorials on using mod rewrite, including writing efficient regular expressions.
• combining rails and php
  
  
• Time For A Grown-Up Server: Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Capistrano and You
  Coda Hale