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Section 1. What This Short Cut CoversThis short cut is an introduction and guide to Mongrel, a fast, versatile Ruby Web server. If you build or manage Web applications, this will be a useful reference as you set up and use Mongrel in your development and production environments, as well as a handbook for how you can extend Mongrel to suit your own needs.
In addition to covering how to use and extend Mongrel, we also review a number of topics that we consider "Best Practices" for modern software development, deployment, and performance testing. We discuss these in the context of using Mongrel, but they should be
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1.1. The Format of This Short Cut
This short cut uses the common formatting conventions to represent code, filenames, and so on. If you have never read a book on software before, the following description will
Indented blocks of code or shell commands will appear in a fixed-width font:
uri '/', :handler => DirHandler.new('/var/www/opinions/')
A reference to a file, function, or class within a sentencelike HttpHandler , mongrel.log , or some_function(param) will be in italics.
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