If I am using a font and don't have the bold version, I could use the tag text-shadow, adding a contour to make the thin font bolder. But I have only the bold font, and I want to make it thinner....

I am attempting to deploy a Sinatra streaming SSE response application on the Cedar stack. Unfortunately while it works perfectly in development, once deployed to Heroku the callback or errback nev...

A Rails 3.2.0 app, working fine with Thin web server, both locally and on Heroku cedar stack. After: $ git branch work $ git checkout work $ rails server I get: => Booting Thin => Rails ...

I looked everywhere I can find but can't seem to find a solution to this. I'm using Xcode 4.5.1 on Lion 10.8.2, and am trying to run bundle for a Rails project and it keeps jamming up on this. I'...

Each time I make changes to code I have to restart the server or it won't change the output. I have tried using thin and webrick. My development.rb file says "config.cache_classes = false". I am...

I started using bundler and have some problems getting it working. I have the following gemfile: source "http://rubygems.org" gem "rack", "~>1.1" gem 'pg','>= 0.8.0' gem 'rails','2.3.8' gem ...

I am working on a rails app that submits a french translation via ajax and for some reason I keep getting the following error in the log: Encoding::CompatibilityError incompatible character encodi...

I've recently found that some people prefer using unicorn_rails instead of the default WEBrick as a web server for developing Rails applications. I understand that if I wanted to use unicorn in p...

Thin server has -l option to redirect output to log file (default: log/thin.log). Is there a way like in webrick server the output is always to console (and log/development.log) too ?

I have been using Thin to run my ruby Sinatra applications but I am now switching over to Puma. Thin creates its own log log/thin.log which I use. I noticed that Puma doesn't produce a log file (no...

I'm learning thin server, by now I can use thin start to fire up the server, but the port is 3000, I should type the localhost:3000 in the browser to get the webpage. I want to take off the 3000 p...

So I'm trying to get thin to run as a service with RVM. After a thin install I manually updated /etc/init.d/thin to use an su - user when running the config command so that thin was running as a lo...

Just wanted to get people's opinions on using Unicorn vs Thin as a rails server. Most of the articles/benchmarks I found online seem very incomplete, so it would nice to have a centralized place to...

I've gotten our stack converted to Rails 4 (yea!) and I'm looking to take advantage of the thread-safe code. Puma works in getting up, stopping it appears to be a different problem :( Is Puma th...

I've a really weird problem here. I'm using the rack-zippy gem in my rails application and if I start it in development environment without pre-compiled assets it works like a charm. With the -d pa...

Why do we need to install nginx with thin on production setup, As thin is itself a web server. Every blog post people are using ruby+rails+nginx+thin?

I'm currently developing a web-app, and I alternate between Windows and Mac dev machines for this. My problem is that pages render extremely slowly on Windows, but it's not my Ruby code running sl...

I'm trying to find a way to bind my production Rails server to port 80 without having to run the entire server with root privileges. My question is basically the same as "Is there a way for non-roo...

I recently 'upgraded' my app to the cedar platform on Heroku. By default, I am using thin as a web server. But I have always been tempted to use unicorn for concurrency and having my dyno dollar go...

I have an pretty simple app hosted on EC2 built with Sinatra, served with thin behind nginx. The problem is that with Chrome, the session variables get 'lost' in Sinatra. It does not happen in Fire...

I intend to replace WEBrick by Thin on a Rails 3.2 project because WEBrick handles malformed unescaped URIs badly (bad URI error). I know there are config hacks to make WEBrick handle unescaped URI...

I've a very basic test app. When I execute this command the server ignores the port I specify and runs Thin on port 4567. Why is the port I specify ignored? $ruby xxx.rb start -p 8000 == Sinatra/...

Does anyone know of a way to run the ruby debugger and SSL at the same time with Thin? I've been using Thin successfully with Rails 3.0.10. I start it using rails server --debugger, and I can deb...

I get it working with Puma, but with Thin I don't get any stream output and I have to kill the server to stop it. I'm testing using tenderlove's initial example outputing the current time: http://...

Looking at the logs, my cedar app currently runs webrick. Obviously, this is not the best choice for production app. As noted all over the web, I should use Thin webserver. But I would still like...