Phusion released Passenger 2.2.10 this week, fixing some bundler compatibility bugs and a file descriptor bug that could lead to “mysterious crashes”.
We’ve built our Ubuntu Hardy packages for i386 and AMD64 architectures which are now available from the Brightbox apt repository. We’ve also upgraded our librack-ruby packages to 1.1.0.
Passenger 2.2.4 was released last week and we now have Ubuntu Hardy packages available in our repository.
Passenger 2.2.4 actually is just a small bug fix release for a memory leak in 2.2.3, but obviously brings all the benefits of 2.2.3 too. A huge number of bugs have been fixed, particularly the “Broken Pipe” errors some sites under heavy loads were experiencing.
As usual, details on installing the packages from our repository are available on our wiki.
If you’re using Passenger and it’s making you happy, please do consider supporting its development by donating money in the form of an “Enterprise License” direct from Phusion, the company behind it.
Sphinx is an SQL full-text search engine that’s being used more and more in the Rails world. We’ve built some packages to provide Sphinx 0.9.8.1 on Ubuntu Hardy. It comes with some basic man pages and the included documentation and examples, but it’s obviously more useful when used with a Rails plugin, such as Thinking Sphinx or Ultrasphinx.
So, rather than downloading the sources and compiling yourself, just install from our APT repository. If you’re on a Brightbox it’s just:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sphinx-search
Otherwise you’ll need to configure our repository manually.
We’re of course hoping to get these package accepted upstream at Debian/Ubuntu, so using Sphinx will be easy for everyone.
Happy indexing!
We’ve backported NGINX 0.6.29 packages from Debian experimental to Ubuntu Dapper and included the fair proxy balancer module.
It’s in our testing repository at the moment so give it a whirl (it will of course install on any Ubuntu Dapper box, not just Brightboxes). We have a page on the Brightbox wiki on how to configure NGINX for your Brightbox apps too (which can easily be adjusted to any NGINX install really).
If you’re playing with any of this beta stuff (like these packages or the Brightbox gem) and have feedback or need help, feel free to discuss it on the Brightbox-beta Google group that i just set up.
