[noob] simpletest.rb, mongrel 1.1, ruby 1.8.4, mac os x 10.3.9 hangs

Server Mongrel
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Hello,

I’m trying to run the latest/greatest mongrel version:

% sudo gem install mongrel
…
Successfully installed mongrel-1.1

% gem list mongrel
mongrel (1.1)

% ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin7.9.0]

% uname -a
Darwin NewYork.local 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30
20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power
Macintosh powerpc

Running examples/webrick_compare.rb works fine:

% ruby examples/webrick_compare.rb
[2007-11-07 20:27:34] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
[2007-11-07 20:27:34] INFO ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24)
[powerpc-darwin7.9.0]
[2007-11-07 20:27:34] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=919 port=4000

But running examples/simpletest.rb hangs:

% ruby examples/simpletest.rb

The application sit there, not going any further than the “require
‘mongrel’” statement.

Any thoughts one what I could be missing?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

PA.

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On Nov 07, 2007, at 20:37, PA wrote:

But running examples/simpletest.rb hangs:

% ruby examples/simpletest.rb

The application sit there, not going any further than the “require
‘mongrel’” statement.

Any thoughts one what I could be missing?

Never mind… after upgrading to ruby 1.8.6 and, more importantly, gem
0.9.4 everything works as advertised.

Sorry for the noise.

Cheers,

PA.

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Simpletest should probably be removed or at least audited; I don’t
think anyone has looked at it in a while.

Evan

4

On Nov 07, 2007, at 22:49, Evan W. wrote:

Simpletest should probably be removed or at least audited; I don’t
think anyone has looked at it in a while.

Well, it’s always nice to have a little ‘Hello World’ example that one
can run out-of-the-box, with minimum fuss.

Then one can run some rather meaningless micro benchmarks against it :))

[Ruby/WEBrick 1.3.1]

% ruby webrick_compare.rb
% ab -n 1000 -k http://localhost:4000/test
Requests per second: 4.98 [#/sec] (mean)

[Ruby/Mongrel 1.1]

% ruby simpletest.rb 127.0.0.1 4000 .
% ab -n 1000 -k http://localhost:4000/dumb
Requests per second: 234.80 [#/sec] (mean)

[Ruby/ServerSide 0.4.3][1]

% ruby serverside start
% ab -n 1000 -k http://localhost:8000/serverside.pid
Requests per second: 402.09 [#/sec] (mean)

[Python/WebPy 0.22][2]

% python code.py
% ab -n 1000 -k http://localhost:8080/
Requests per second: 313.87 [#/sec] (mean)

[Lua/HTTP/TCPServer][3][4]

% lua TestServer.lua
% ab -n 1000 -k http://localhost:1080/hello
Requests per second: 682.13 [#/sec] (mean)

[Lua/HTTP/tcpserver][5]

% ab -n 1000 -k http://localhost:1080/hello
% tcpserver -oDHlR 0 1080 lua Hello.lua
Requests per second: 1107.42 [#/sec] (mean)

% ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-23 patchlevel 110) [powerpc-darwin7.9.0]

% python -V
Python 2.5.1

% lua -v
Lua 5.1.2 Copyright (C) 1994-2007 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

[1] http://serverside.rubyforge.org/
[2] http://webpy.org/
[3] http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/HTTP.lua
[4] http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/TCPServer.lua
[5] http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html

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PA, if you’re going to do that be sure to include evented_mongrel from
swiftiply in the mix.
$ EVENT=1 mongrel_rails -p 3000 …

~Wayne