Hours ago, I posted about, “How to deploy rails application with pound as a Balancer”.
Lets run rails application on https with pound. For that your machine should have:
* Pound installed with ssl support
* Pound and mongrels running
Now, First of all we need a ssl certificate, that can be generate by issuing “openssl req -x509 -newkey […]

Now a days Apache + mod_proxy + mongrel_clusters, Lighttpd + Mongrel cluster and Nginx + mongrel cluster are well known for deploying rails applications.
You can also deploy your rails application with pound(a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server).
First you need to setup mongrel_clusters for your rails application by issuing […]

I was using acts_as_searchable for one of my project, which uses Hyperestraier in background. Yesterday I decided to use acts_as_solr which uses solr(based on Lucene Java search library). I did all written in its Manual/Readme, but when I issued

rake solr:start

to start the solr server, it threw a heart breaking “Bad file descriptor” error, […]

I participated in August Rails Hackfest which was a great experience.
You can see the missing August 2007 from the Post Archives. I didn’t post anything last month as I was busy in submitting rails patches. I submitted a lot of patches out of which I got one patch committed to the rails code under changeset […]