Tag Archives: mongrel

Using Nginx to send files with x-accel-redirect

So far I’ve configured Nginx to handle file uploads by caching the file to disk and telling rails where it is, rather than passing it through in the request, not fun with large files.  Now to do the reverse.  Instead of Rails sending files to users thru Nginx, Rails can tell Nginx what file to [...]

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Finishing off my base Ruby on Rails install

So I got sidetracked with Apache in my last post.  Here I’m going to finish up the install basics sans automated deployment.  At the moment I’m just jumping onto the server and going:

git pull
mongrel_rails cluster::restart

All my server is showing at the moment is this.  It’s amazing I know and people will talk about it for [...]

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