[Catalyst] Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Prefork not used? (solved)

[Moritz Onken]

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