My rails sites run Mongrel, I am having a problem with the amount of memory being used. My ruby-bin processes are using up about 66 MB of resident memory. How can I reduce the amount of memory used...

Ok, so I would like to create an action in Rails to restart itself. I did a little searching and found: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5002 Which suggests 2 commands, one to stop and anothe...

I get the following error when restarting my rails app. I've had this problem before, on another server with another app, but can't remember what the problem was, or how I solved it. Rails Error: ...

I wonder what's the best deployment directory for Rails apps? Some developers use directories such as /u/apps/#{appname}. Are there any advantages when using /u/apps/#{appname} instead of /var/www/...

Anybody know a nice way to restart a mongrel cluster via capistrano in a "rolling" style, eg, one mongrel at a time. Would be great to have a bit of wait time in there as well for each, to let the ...

Is there a way to restart the Rails app (e.g. when you've changed a plugin/config file) while Mongrel is running. Or alternatively quickly restart Mongrel. Mongrel gives these hints that you can bu...