Oh, I have such love for plugins that copy files around in production. I especially love it when the Rails app doesn’t have permission to write to the filesystem — why would it in production? — and Mongrel simply goes away. Running Mongrel without backgrounding it with start-stop-daemon reveals the trickery in action.

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Mootools v1.11 as shipped has a few bugs I came across. I was assured there couldn’t be any, as it’s been out for a while.

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There are a ton of possible upload progress solutions for Web applications that need them. I had been using the upload progress that came with Merb, but I had modify mup.js to make Ajax calls using mootools instead of Prototype. Ultimately the progress status wasn’t updating consistently, so I sought a pure mootools compatible solution.

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