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If you’re on Linux/BSD/OSX and you’d like to give MouseHole a power-up, try out the new LightTPD support, just checked into CVS. Runs much better than WEBrick and uses the same API! Apache2+mod_ruby support is also checked in, but it still really needs some work. (As usual, contributors welcome.)

 cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@rubyforge.org:/var/cvs/mousehole login
 cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@rubyforge.org:/var/cvs/mousehole co mouseHole

And you’ll have a checked-out copy.

LightTPD MouseHole

You’ll need LightTPD, FastCGI, and FCGI-Ruby installed. Head to your checked out copy of MouseHole and run:

 bin/mouseHole -s lighttpd

You can pass in all the typical commandline options as well, if you like.

 bin/mouseHole -s lighttpd --no-tidy 127.0.0.1 3704

Logs for script errors are stored in ~/.mouseHole/log. If you’d like to inspect the generated LightTPD configurations, see ~/.mouseHole/temp/lighttpd.

Apache2 MouseHole

You’ll need Apache2 (I believe earlier Apaches will work as well) and mod_ruby. Then, go to your checked out copy of MouseHole and run:

 bin/mouseHole -s apache2

To stop Apache:

 apache2ctl -f ~/.mouseHole/temp/apache/httpd.conf -k stop

Again, all the commandline options should work as well. Logs are stored in the same place as above. If you want to inspect or tweak the Apache configuration, see ~/.mouseHole/temp/apache2.