jstorimer / hooves

Rack handler for unicorn meant to be used with `rails server`

hooves

Adds a super simple Rack handler for the Unicorn http server. Basically just enough to get it running when using the rails server command.

Install

It's a rubygem, you'll want to include it in your Gemfile.

Usage

Just use rails server unicorn.

If you want to make unicorn the default rack server then you can require 'hooves/default' and boot it up with just rails server.

Config file

Hooves looks for unicorn config files in two locations.

First it looks in ~/.hooves. If that file exists then it gets passed to Unicorn as the config file.

Second it looks in ./.hooves.

We look in ~/ first because you can only pass one config file to Unicorn. If your project has a .hooves file checked in to its root and you want to have a custom config file, that might be a pain. So we look in ~/ first. That might also become a pain if you want to have different configs for different projects. Let me know and we'll find something that works.

Caveats

• This was written to work with Rails 3. Not sure what'll happen if you try it elsewhere. Let me know!

hooves's Issues

TypeError: "Symbol as array index" on first request

Not sure this gem is intended to work with this version of unicorn or whatnot, but I'm getting this error (with unicorn 4.1.1):

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/unicorn-4.1.1/lib/unicorn/http_server.rb:100:in `[]': Symbol as array index (TypeError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/unicorn-4.1.1/lib/unicorn/http_server.rb:100:in `initialize'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hooves-0.5/lib/hooves/unicorn.rb:33:in `new'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hooves-0.5/lib/hooves/unicorn.rb:33:in `run'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.3.5/lib/rack/server.rb:265:in `start'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.1.0/lib/rails/commands/server.rb:70:in `start'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.1.0/lib/rails/commands.rb:54
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.1.0/lib/rails/commands.rb:49:in `tap'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.1.0/lib/rails/commands.rb:49
from script/rails:6:in `require'
from script/rails:6

remove Rails requirement?

I'm using RVM and I'd like to install hooves in my global gemset, alongside unicorn, but hooves pulls in all of rails and its dependencies. (I'd rather install the rails stack in each of my project gemsets.) I looked through your source code and can't find any references to Rails and its components, so I don't see what could break.

You may want to directly depend on Rack, though, since you do have some require statements to rack libraries.

Thanks a bunch!

Possible to just load config/unicorn.rb in .hooves?

I hate to have duplicate configurations, any way to just load my config/unicorn.rb in my .hooves?