Load Balance Around Your Mongrels’ Health

See Book:Advanced Rails Recipes, The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Recipe 78 Load Balance Around Your Mongrels’ Health

Ingredients

• The mongrel gem:

  $ gem install mongrel

• The mongrel_cluster gem:

  $ gem install mongrel_cluster

• A load balancer that supports periodic health checks such as HAproxy, Varnish, Squid, Pound, NetScaler, or F5 BigIP

See also Recipe 80:Monitor (and Repair) Processes with Monit