From: Thiago Jackiw <tjackiw@...>
Date: 2006-10-09T15:29:04+09:00
Subject: Re: where to start

Pet,

It seems you have a Ruby on Rails web app running on your machine. The
dispatch.fcgi file is, as its name says, a dispatcher for your rails
app and it's handled by your apache's mod_fcgi.

Hope it helps.

Thiago


On 10/8/06, Pet Farrari <pf@auth.net.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found there are some Ruby programs are running in this development
> machines. Now I need to add some functionality into the Ruby program,
> but I don't know where to look into its starting program or its main
> body of the program.
>
> in aparche/httpd.conf file:
> <IfDefine SSL>
>
> ##
> ## SSL Virtual Host Context
> ##
>
> FastCgiServer /www/apps/scripts/public/dispatch.fcgi -idle-timeout 90
> -initial-env RAILS_ENV=production -processes 10
>
> <VirtualHost _default_:443>
>
>
> Here is the dispatch.fcgi script:
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment"
> require 'fcgi_handler'
>
> RailsFCGIHandler.process!
>
> I got stuck. I don't know how does this dispatch.fcgi program invoke
> which ruby main program...
>
> Can anyone please shed some light on me?
>
> Thanks
> S
>
>