Or if you are more adventurous try the new mod_rails for nginx. My tests
show it to be stable and fast, and though my production sites use
mongrel, it is sure easier to manage mod_rails.

Guy.

Edho P Arief wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Harald Lapp wrote:
>
>> hello,
>>
>> i'm currently using nginx as proxy for webrick running redmine. i'm
>> not very happy with this, i would like to run redmine using fastcgi
>> with nginx (without proxying to webrick, mongrel, etc.). however, as
>> i'm new to nginx and not very familiar with ruby/rails, i could need
>> some help.
>>
>> this is my script for spawning the dispatch.fcgi from redmine:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> exec 2>&1
>>
>> export RAILS_ENV=production
>> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> exec /usr/local/bin/spawn-fcgi -p 9001 -u www-data -g www-data -f
>> /usr/local/redmine/public/dispatch.fcgi
>>
>> however ... i don't have a clue how to configure nginx fastCGI for
>> redmine/ruby/rails for this spawned process. i've tried different
>> things, but all result in a "500 -- internal server error".
>>
>> any help is very appreciated!
>>
>> regards,
>> harald
>>
>>
>>
>
> config please?
>
> why are you avoiding mongrel - the performance is much better than
> webrick and it's pretty easy to manage (using mongrel_cluster)?
>
>