Greg Benedict

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Tag: mongrel

Why Passenger Phusion Is a Better Hosting Solution Long Term

Since we started hosting Ruby on Rails applications in 2006, many of the pieces have changed. At each step, things became a bit easier and a bit faster. Here’s how things have changed.

The Next Evolution in Mongrel Is Thin

Update: Thin, Mongrel and all of the variants have been replaced by a much better solution. The Quick Background First there was Zed’s excellent (and much appreciated) baseline work that establish Mongrel as the front runner in ruby hosting. Something I’ve been using for well over a year in production behind nginx. From that baseline [...]

Mongrel Security Alert

Make sure you install the latest 1.0.x or 1.1.x release of Mongrel. There is a security hole in the DirHandler that allows read access to the file system. sudo gem install mongrel You should be running at least 1.05 or 1.1.3. Per Zed and others on the mailing list, here are the details: 1) If [...]