Pennysmalls

Thin is getting some attention, so I thought we would give it a try.

Installation is just a matter of gem install thin.

Run it with something like

thin -e production -s 6

That’s 6 servers running on 0.0.0.0:3000 to 0.0.0.0:3005

Look at the examples if you need to make a monit recipe.

One thing we have is some code to make individual log files for each server instance. This is how it was with mongrel – we put this code in environment.rb inside the Rails::Initializer block:

if ENV['RAILS_ENV'] == 'production'
  if defined?(Mongrel::HttpServer)
    ObjectSpace.each_object(Mongrel::HttpServer) {|i| @port = i.port}
    @port = "unknown" unless @port && @port.to_i > 0
    config.logger = Logger.new(File.expand_path(
      RAILS_ROOT+"/log/#{ENV['RAILS_ENV']}.#{@port}.log"), 2, 25000000)
  end
end

Somthing very similar will work with thin:

if ENV['RAILS_ENV'] == 'production'
  if defined?(Thin::Server)
    ObjectSpace.each_object(Thin::Server) {|i| @port = i.backend.port}
    @port = "unknown" unless @port && @port.to_i > 0
    config.logger = Logger.new(File.expand_path(
      RAILS_ROOT+"/log/#{ENV['RAILS_ENV']}.#{@port}.log"), 2, 25000000)
  end
end

With this code in place you will get individual log files named production.3000.log, production.3001.log etc.

Finally we were seeing these errors:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  unable to delete epoll event: Bad file descriptor

This is a known problem not with thin, but with EventMachine. Grab an updated gem like this:

gem install eventmachine --source http://code.macournoyer.com