[Catalyst] Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Prefork not used? (solved)
Moritz Onken
onken at houseofdesign.de
Tue Apr 14 13:11:06 GMT 2009
Am 14.04.2009 um 14:48 schrieb Neo [GC]:
> J. Shirley schrieb:
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Neo [GC] <neo at gothic-chat.de <mailto:neo at gothic-chat.de
>> >> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've read about the prefork-engine for the test-server in another
>> thread, which could be very useful for me (our outsourced
>> codemonkeys sometimes produce VERY SLOW controllers and together
>> with multiple ajax-request, this means waiting ;)).
>>
>> About usage I found only this:
>>
>> $ cpan Catalyst:Engine::HTTP::Prefork
>> $ CATALYST_ENGINE='HTTP::Prefork' script/myapp_server.pl
>>
>> Amazingly, this doesn't change anything at all with my app, after
>> starting there are still only two processes (some kind of
>> supervisor I think and the real server process) and the requests
>> are served one-by-one. Even more confusing, if I set
>> CATALYST_ENGINE to 'Whatever', I get no error message or
>> something.
>>
>> Is there required more to use it, besides installing the module
>> from CPAN?
>>
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Neo [GC]
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Neo,
>>
>> Are you running a really old version of Catalyst::Devel?
>> If you specify the -r option to myapp_server.pl that was generated
>> with a (oh, 2 years?) very old version of Catalyst::Devel it will
>> not work right.
>> This option clobbers your engine and sets the engine to
>> 'HTTP::Restart'. Take a look at your script/myapp_server.pl and
>> find the section for checking $restart
>>
>> The proper lines should be:
>>
>> if ( $restart && $ENV{CATALYST_ENGINE} eq 'HTTP' ) {
>> $ENV{CATALYST_ENGINE} = 'HTTP::Restarter';
>> }
>>
>> It used to omit the test for CATALYST_ENGINE, and ... well, that's
>> not right :)
>> Otherwise, it should definitely throw an error for an invalid
>> engine being specified:
>>
>> $ CATALYST_ENGINE='Yourmom' perl script/myapp_server.pl
>> Can't locate Catalyst/Engine/Yourmom.pm in @INC
>>
>> -J
> Ha! Thank you very much, this was exactly the problem!
>
> Our startup-scripts indeed seem to be abount two years old. I
> remember seeing a warning about old scripts once, but haven't seen
> them in a while and thought one of my colleagues fixed it.
>
> If I may ask a following question.... how to rebuild the scripts?
> >_< I can't reproduce the old warning and either I'm too stupid to
> use Google or the howto is hidden somewhere in subspace...
>
catalyst.pl -force -scripts MyApp
moritz
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