The good news for Debian users is that I spent this morning updating the Mongrel Debian packages for good old stable Sarge.
If you don’t have Mongrel already installed the Debian way, but would like to, you might want to read that older article for initial setup instructions.
Once set up, installing or updating couldn’t be easier:
apt-get update
apt-get install mongrel
and you’re done.
Please feel free to contact me with any problems related to these packages.
Wouldn’t it be cool if you just could
apt-get install mongrel
to set up the great Mongrel web server including a recent version of Ruby and everything else needed to run your Rails applications in a combined Mongrel/Apache load balanced setup on a rock solid and easy-to-maintain Debian Sarge server ?
If the answer is yes, this one is for you.
Not that I don’t like gem, but on production systems I prefer to have as less package mangement systems as possible ;-)
So the goal is to set up such a server, without doing a single gem install or ruby setup.rb. We’ll need to install rubygems itself, though, since Mongrel depends on it. But as there’s already a debian package for this, there’s nothing to worry about.
The official cadaver debian package doesn’t support ssl, because of some annoying licensing issues with openSSL. Therefore I recompiled the sarge version of cadaver with ssl enabled. After a bit of reading this turned out to be a quite simple process:
apt-get source cadaverdebian/rules: make the –without-ssl switch in the call to configure read –with-ssl, and change the package name to cadaver-ssl.debian/control: change package name again, add the line Conflicts: cadaver to indicate that only the original cadaver _or_ our ssl version can be installed at the same time.fakeroot dpkg-buildpackageYou can get the result here, or via apt-get install cadaver-ssl by adding the line
deb http://debian.jkraemer.net/apt sarge main contrib non-free
to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
Update (2006/07/12): I fixed the URLs above.
I just managed to get my new Netgear WG511GR PCMCIA Wlan card working with my Debian powered notebook. Was not as easy as I hoped, because there seem to be different versions of this card, and not all of them are currently supported by the prism54.org driver. So it was time to learn something about ndiswrapper.
