Where do I find the script invoked by script/server

[ikeo]

I've installed thin on my machine, but I want it to start up instead of Webrick when I type

script/server

at the console

Any idea where to find it?

I know this can be done, because once I install mongrel script/server invokes it instead of Webrick

[AllTom]

I didn't know, but I hunted it down. script/server basically just requires "commands/server" so I hunted that down: rails/railties/lib/commands/server.rb (which I have in vendor/ because I froze Rails; otherwise it's in your gem directory).

That file just fumbles around, blindly requiring the fcgi and mongrel libraries. Then it checks command-line arguments, but if none were given, just uses the first of mongrel, lighttpd, and webrick which seem to be installed. Then it just requires the file in the servers/ subdirectory corresponding to the server that should load.

It looks like you could just make a rails/railties/lib/commands/servers/thin.rb with a single line `thin start` (or be fancier if you want). Then you could run "script/server thin". If you fiddled with the server.rb you could make it the default, but I don't know of a way to do that which wouldn't be overridden the next time you update Rails.

[ikeo]

I had just been screwing around with those files before you wrote.
Depending on the version of rails you're running the file resides in
C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-2.0.2\lib\commands

I've edited it so it calls a thin.rb

located in

C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-2.0.2\lib\commands\servers

but it doesn't work

All I have in there is

system("thin start")

[AllTom]

What was your edit? Did you modify the line in server.rb that says

when "lighttpd", "mongrel", "webrick"

to include "thin"? Or something else?

[ikeo]

yes I did ... in fact here is my modified server.rb

require 'active_support'
require 'fileutils'

begin
  require_library_or_gem 'fcgi'
rescue Exception
  # FCGI not available
end

begin
  require_library_or_gem 'mongrel'
rescue Exception
  # Mongrel not available
end

begin
  require_library_or_gem 'thin'
rescue Exception
  # Mongrel not available
end

server = case ARGV.first
  when "lighttpd", "mongrel", "webrick", "thin"
    ARGV.shift
  else
    if defined?(Mongrel)
      "mongrel"
    elsif defined?(Thin)
      "thin"
    elsif RUBY_PLATFORM !~ /(:?mswin|mingw)/ && !silence_stderr { `lighttpd -version` }.blank? && defined?(FCGI)
      "lighttpd"
    else
      "webrick"
    end
end

case server
  when "webrick"
    puts "=> Booting WEBrick..."
  when "lighttpd"
    puts "=> Booting lighttpd (use 'script/server webrick' to force WEBrick)"
  when "thin"
    puts "=> Booting Thin (use 'script/server webrick' to force WEBrick)"
  when "mongrel"
    puts "=> Booting Mongrel (use 'script/server webrick' to force WEBrick)"
end

%w(cache pids sessions sockets).each { |dir_to_make| FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'tmp', dir_to_make)) }
require "commands/servers/#{server}"

[AllTom]

And you're sure it's the server.rb that's getting used? I tried the same mod and it worked. Check that ./script/about shows the Rails version you expect; check that there's no Rails frozen in vendor.