Mongrel (Digital Shortcut)
Author: Matt Pelletier
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2006-10-18
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0132701774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the eBook version of the printed book. This short cut is an introduction and guide to Mongrel, a fast, versatile RubyWeb server. If you build or manage Web applications, this will be a usefulreference as you set up and use Mongrel in your development and productionenvironments, as well as a handbook for how you can extend Mongrel to suityour own needs. In addition to covering how to use and extend Mongrel, we also review anumber of topics that we consider "Best Practices" for modern software development,deployment, and performance testing. We discuss these in thecontext of using Mongrel, but they should be considered applicable to anysoftware project. Our own work has always benefited from seeing the techniquesof others, so we hope that sharing the experience, approach, andphilosophy that went into designing and developing Mongrel will be interesting and helpful for your own pursuits. Section 1: What This Short Cut Covers 4 Section 2: Introduction 6 Section 3: Getting Started 13 Section 4: Configurations 20 Section 5: Production Deployment 37 Section 6: Extending Mongrel 60 Section 7: Debugging 79 Section 8: Performance 90 Section 9: Security 96 Resources 103 Acknowledgments 105 About the Authors 106
