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.
The Phusion team released Passenger 2.2.9 today, which adds support for Rails 3, the GEM bundler, and fixes a couple of bugs. As usual Brightbox are providing Ubuntu Hardy packages for i386 and AMD64 architectures, available now from the Brightbox apt repository.
This package won’t actually support Rails 3 just yet though as we’ve yet to package and test the librack 1.1.0, which Rails 3 depends on. We’re working on it now and once we’re happy with it we’ll add new packages to our repository as usual.
We’ve just added Caspar Clemens Mierau’s package for the Apache x-sendfile module to our Ubuntu Hardy package repositories, so now it’s trivially easy for Brightbox customers to start using it. We’ve also built an AMD64 version too. Just install the package, enable it and reload Apache:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-xsendfile
sudo a2enmod xsendfile
sudo invoke-rc.d apache reloadWe’ve built 32bit and 64bit Ubuntu Hardy packages for Ruby Enterprise 1.8.7-2009.10. These packages are still in beta, and this is quite a major change from the default Hardy Ruby interpreter,which is 1.8.6, so we recommend you test thoroughly before putting it into production. We’ve been using them for a couple of days with no problems though.
As with our other Ruby EE packages, they upgrade (i.e replace) the standard 1.8 Ruby installation. This means all your gems stay the same, and everything on your system immediately starts using them (Phusion’s own Ubuntu packages do not work like this). We’ve tested it with the usual Railsy native gems, RMagick, Mongrel, fasthread etc. and have had no problems.
If you’re on a Brightbox, just edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brightbox-rubyee.list and change the rubyee component to rubyee-testing:
deb http://apt.brightbox.net/ hardy rubyee-testing
Then update and upgrade:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libruby1.8
If you’re not on a Brightbox, see the instructions on our wiki first. The wiki also documents how to revert back to the old packages.
As said above, we now have 64bit packages available too (which was recently made easier by some Debian package dependency updates, also included in our repository).
Please let us know how they worked out for you on our forum. Thanks!
For my weeks on call, Brightbox let me choose an ultra-mobile (netbook) PC. This will allow me to leave the house without having to carry a heavy full-size laptop with me.
I wanted one that worked well with Linux, preferably Ubuntu Netbook Remix, had SSD rather than hard disk, and built-in 3G connectivity.
I’ve picked the Acer Aspire One (AAO) A110. It was available in the UK from Tesco in this spec with 1GB of RAM for GBP 179 – a bargain.
It came with a truly dreadful pre-installed build of Windows XP Home. Very slow and very much not recommended. Ubuntu Netbook Remix is, on the other hand, superb.
I’ve installed the pre-release Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic”. Here’s what I’ve found that’s specific to the A110. I’ve written up these notes in the hope that they’ll be useful to someone else thinking of running Linux on an AAO. While there is a wealth of information about it out on the Internet, it’s not all collected together in one place.
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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.
Passenger 2.2.2 was released a few days ago and we now have a package available for Ubuntu Hardy. After a lot of testing, we’re also happy with the recent packaging changes so this is going straight to our stable repository.
This new version of Passenger brings a train-load of NGINX fixes, so our Passenger enabled nginx-brightbox package has been updated too and is available in our testing repository. More details on using our testing repository here in the 2.2.1 announcement blog post.
Following Friday’s release of Passenger 2.1.2 by the Phusion folks, we’ve updated our Ubuntu packages. We’ve been testing version 2.1.1 packages for a little while now and they’ve been very stable, supporting both Rails 2.3 and older apps that still depend on Rack 0.4 (such as older Sinatra apps).
The details are on the usual page on our wiki. If you have any problems or need any help, try our forums.
The new packages depend on new versions of the Ruby rack libraries (not the gem), but this is provided in our repository too and will be automatically installed. You need to install the fastthread gem yourself though. Our repository provides a few other useful Hardy packages too.
We are only testing our packages against Ubuntu Hardy right now, but they should install and run fine on newer versions of Ubuntu too.
Remember, for maximum memory savings (and speed improvements) try our Ruby Enterprise Edition packages for Ubuntu Hardy (currently only 32bit packages available).
We’ve just built new versions of our Passenger Ubuntu package. It’s still Passenger 2.0.6, but we tweaked the dependencies so you aren’t forced to use the Apache worker mpm (prefork should work just fine with Passenger).
We’re now also providing 64bit versions of the packages (the source of the 404 errors some of you reported when trying to install the package).
Documentation for the packages in the usual place on the wiki.
More Passenger news coming soon :)
We’ve built some experimental Ruby “Enterprise Edition” packages for Ubuntu Hardy. Ruby EE is from the guys at Phusion and is copy-on-write friendly so, in combination with Phusion Passenger, saves memory.
Our packages just upgrade (i.e replace) the standard 1.8 Ruby installation, which might not be acceptable for everyone. But it’s simpler than fiddling about with dual Ruby installations.
So, once you’ve added our experimental repository, you’re one command away from getting copy-on-write friendly Ruby EE. If you don’t like it for some reason, one command gets up back to where you started.
These packages are currently experimental – we’re using them on a few small projects with good results so far, but they’ve not been heavily tested yet.
More details here on our wiki.
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