Changing The Number Of Mongrels

By default, the railsmachine gem will allocate 2 mongrels for each application. If you’d like to run more, uncomment and update these lines in your deploy.rb:

set :apache_proxy_servers, 3
set :mongrel_servers, apache_proxy_servers

Commit your changes and then run this on your development system:

cap app:setup web:setup servers:restart

Note: If you’ve customized your Apache configuration- to use SSL, for instance- you should omit the web:setup task and instead update the balance members manually in /etc/httpd/conf/apps/yourapp.conf

Make sure you have enough memory to run those new mongrels!