rails-status-handler | this is a custom request handler for the mongrel web server | Application Framework library

rails-status-handler is a Ruby library typically used in Server, Application Framework, Ruby On Rails applications. rails-status-handler has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

this is a custom request handler for the mongrel web server. its purpose is to make available the status of the rails handler for a given mongrel instance. mongrel is a multi-threaded web server, but due to a lack of thread safety in many of rails' sub-systems, the rails handler that ships with mongrel wraps all calls to the rails dispatcher in a mutex. this means the rails handler may only process one rails request at a time. any requests that arrive while another request is being processed will be queued and then sequentially processed. if any one request takes a long time, all queued requests will be delayed. with certain load balancing tools, it is possible to monitor the status