I'm setting up an Orchard CMS site and noticing that it is incredibly slow.
It is running on a VPS that hosts a couple of other MVC based websites which all run fine, so the server doesn't appear to be the issue.
I've read that renaming the Sample.Host.Config file to Host.Config should fix the issue. Which it seems to do for a few hours, until randomly I then get the following error and the site no longer works.
The type 'Orchard.Environment.Configuration.AzureBlobTenantManager' could not be found. It may require assembly qualification, e.g. "MyType, MyAssembly".
I've tried installing the Cache module which hasn't made any difference.
Has anyone else experienced slowness with Orchard CMS? This is a brand new installation with no extra modules and no content... I'm stumped!
Any help is much appreciated
Here are a few things you can try:
As you did, renaming the config file. You need to make sure you are running a prebuilt version.
Installing the Cache module, as you did. This is going to be bundled into Core, it is essential.
Installing the SysCache module to cache database calls
Install the Warmup Module which saves static versions of your pages to serve to the user
Turn off debug flag in Web.config (just in case... ^_^)
Use SQL Server for the speeeeeed
Make sure you have selected the same region for database etc.
To the specific error you are receiving, I also had that error a while back but this was due to my package not being fully built. So why yours would run for a while then break is a mystery... Did you maybe install some modules or something?
Enable the SysCache module in the "Performance" section of Modules
I would also disable the dynamic module loader, stated here towards the middle of the page: http://docs.orchardproject.net/Documentation/Orchard-module-loader-and-dynamic-compilation
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I'm currently looking into what language to build a web application on that will be sold to companies. To make things easier, I was hoping to package the webapp into a convenient installer that contains the entire stack which will run automatically.
Is there any way to create a self contained RoR package?
The only project I'm aware of is called pkgr, which bundles an entire rails app into a DEB package. So if you don't mind limiting your installs to Ubuntu/Debian, you could give it a try.
pkgr home page
Github
You can write a rake task to automatize everything for you. Migrations, bundling, enviroment setup. And it's pretty much plain Ruby, too.
In the end it would be just running a script file to do the job.
I've searched fairly extensively for any advice and have yet to find it so, here goes:
My Rails project fails to automatically reload models in development. Reloading them currently requires a full server restart.
Previous instances of this issue have been related to non-activerecord files placed in the models directory, though this is not the case for me.
config.cache_classes is properly set to false in my development config file. Views and controllers reload without issue.
All of my rails components are version 3.2.11. I have tried disabling all of my development-specific gems to no avail. This is obviously not a productivity stopper, but it is quite an annoyance. Any help appreciated and I am happy to provide more information if it would help, though I am not using any exotic gems.
Thanks!
Some possibilities:
You are not really running on developement environment
You are changing a model within a namespace and didn't told rails to autoload the path
You are changing a file that is included in your class, not your class directly (or any of the many variants for this)
You are caching classes
Considerations:
Things might change according to the webserver you are using
How do you know it's not reloading?
I ask my question because I was having the exact same issue when I was trying to insert a debugger into what I thought was a piece of code that was being executed. I assumed the model wasn't being reloaded since it was not hitting the debugger but it was actually a call back that was redirecting me around the code with the debugger line in it.
So, it might be something other than your models not being reloaded.
I'm having a problem with deploying a Rails 3 app to a Passenger/Apache2/RVM server running Ubuntu 11.10.
I'm getting the error:
A source file that the application requires, is missing.
...
Error message: No such file to load -- Goal
Exception class: LoadError
Goal is one of my Rails Models.
I've seen a lot of people with a similar error message, but their issues seem to relate to missing bundles/gems - not model files! Their problems were resolved by ensuring permissions were set up correctly, so to that end I've got:
Apache running as www-data, as is Passenger. RVM is installed as www-data and I've chown'd the entire web app directory to www-data.
I've been wrestling with this for some time now and am really out of ideas - if anyone has any suggestions I'd be very grateful!
You might probably have the file structure of your Rails app wrong. Are you sure you have the "goal.rb" file within {your_app_root_url}/app/models/ ?
To me, if I am seeing the error when you view the app in browser, it seems like your rails app and passenger(with apache2) are working fine. The other possibility is you might be looking at wrong app folder which passenger is set up to.
It's hard to tell what's wrong. Please provide more details of how you set up your passenger with your rails app directory. Also it would help if you could show what's inside your app (app structure) and what's inside goal.rb model file.
Well I've solved it. Turned out that a work around for a problem with yaml encoded model archives (i.e. an explicit require of Goal) in a completely unrelated Model was causing the error to appear. Looks like it only rears its head in production - probably due to the differences between the class loaders used in development vs. production.
Tough one to find... the stack trace didn't include a reference to where the problem actually was!
I've been using Wordpress for awhile, it's installed on my own server, and one of the features I most love about it is how every time there is a new version it alerts you within the app's web-based admin and with one click I can upgrade the app. I don't have to get anywhere near a console.
Personally I wouldn't mind updating manually, but I can see how this could significantly affect the adoption of a piece of software. I'm working on creating a full-featured ruby on rails forum software and I would love to figure out how to include this feature. Any ideas if this could be done with rails?
Could a rails app modify it's own files? If it did, would the server need to be restarted?
To complicate things further, what if the app was deployed from a repo. Could the rails app check in a commit of itself after updating?
Maybe packaging the core of the app as a gem would be simpler? Then maybe the upgrade would not actually modify the rails MVC stack (the rails app would just be super-basic), instead if the forum was all contained within a gem then all it has to do is trigger a 'gem update [name]'. If this occurred, I don't think the Gemfile would even need to be updated. Would a server restart even be required to load the updated gem?
Ideas or feedback on any of this?
Rails files can be modified and even deleted on production - in my case aplication is still working unchanged as all classes are cached in memory. It means Rails instances must be restarted to take new change.
I suppose WordPress is Perl via CGI and you just drop application into web directory to have it working immediately - same with updates - just overwrite files and Apache picks them up immediately.
In case of Rails is that you don't know target deployment architecture thus restarting application may not be trivial. E.g. with passenger I can just do touch tmp\restart.txt and then all instances are killed and started again. Some deployments may need init.d script restart invocation.
Maybe you could recommend or prepare a ready to use deployment model which supports autoupdate. In other cases users could do updates manually.
I've received some really great guidance from users of this site, and I'm thinking some advanced Rails people could assist me in resolving the following problem.
I'm attempting to deploy a simple Rails application on a win32 server.
I've been carefully working through these instructions (see http://functionalelegant.blogspot.com/2008/05/deploying-rails-on-windows.html) for win32 Rails application deployment.
I started from a more-or-less clean windows install, then downloaded and installed
Ruby
LightTPD
Rails
Zed's SCGI Rails Runner
Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools
Ruby/DBI ADO package
After that, I've done the following:
I've commented out the line in the SCGI gem (which actually was causing trouble.)
I created the directory structure as suggested, with folders for logs.
I modified the scgi.yaml file and the Lighty config files to reflect my environmental settings.
After this, I wrote the batch scripts to start up Lighty and the SGCI process. They appear to run correctly. However, inside app-errors.log the following lines appear:
2009-05-15 16:48:06: (mod_scgi.c.2645) fcgi: got a FDEVENT_ERR. Don't know why.
2009-05-15 16:48:06: (mod_scgi.c.2469) emergency exit: scgi: connection-fd: 7 fcgi-fd: 8
Finally, when I navigate to http://localhost:xxxx/ I just see a blank page. Update: I just realized the blank page only appeared to be. Viewing the source revealed the following issue:
2C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:573:in `load'":C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:612:in `recv_request'":C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:911:in `recv_request'"?C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1530:in `init_with_client'"<C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1542:in `setup_message'"6C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1494:in `perform'"8C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1589:in `main_loop'"3C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1585:in `loop'"8C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1585:in `main_loop'"4C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1581:in `start'"8C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1581:in `main_loop'"2C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1430:in `run'"4C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1427:in `start'"2C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1427:in `run'"9C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1347:in `initialize'"2C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1627:in `new'"<C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1627:in `start_service'"MC:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi_rails-0.4.3/lib/scgi.rb:402:in `run'"HC:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi_rails-0.4.3/bin/scgi_service:61"*C:/Ruby/bin/scgi_service:19:in `load'" C:/Ruby/bin/scgi_service:19: mesg" too large packet
Note that 'ruby script/server' runs just fine, but the page then can't be seen externally.
Any ideas? Please let me know if anything jumps out at you.
I wrote the chapter for this in 'Deploying Rails Applications'. http://www.pragprog.com/titles/fr_deploy/deploying-rails-applications
Basically, you want mongrel, mongrel_service, and apache 2.2 with mod_proxy_balancer for windows.
You install 2 or more instances of your app with Mongrel running on separate ports. You set the services to autostart.
Then you set up apache to balance to them.
This is all outlined in the book, and I have some older articles on my website too - if you search for "deloying rails on windows" you'll find some pretty out of date stuff. The apache+mongrel way is the best way for Windows right now, and if you need additional help, feel free to let me know. I'd be glad to help.