I have dealt with some clients in the past, got screwed a couple of
times, etc. Yes I have contracts, etc. Some of these jobs are so small
that they are not really worth taking legal action. I want to develop a
plugin that can self destruct an application. Is this possible?
Basically I could access a URL with a password, other identification,

envs = {}
lines = File.readlines('ey00.txt').reject{|l| l.chomp.size == 0}

lines.each do |line|
  tags, name, int_ip, *rest = line.split(/,/).map{|m| m.strip }

  # Frequently used constants when constructing requests or responses.  Many times
  # the constant just refers to a string with the same contents.  Using these constants
  # gave about a 3% to 10% performance improvement over using the strings directly.
  # Symbols did not really improve things much compared to constants.

Release candidates for Mongrel 1.0.2 and its dependencies are now
available. Note that gems are now signed, so please add the Mongrel
public certificate via:

  $ wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/25325/mongrel-public_cert.pem

# responder.rb line 162~

        def to_sym
          TYPES.select{|k,v| 
            v == synonyms || v[0] == synonyms[0]}.flatten.first

## config/merb_init.rb
Merb::ResponderMixin::Rest::TYPES[:txt] = %w[text/plain]

puts Merb::ResponderMixin::Rest::TYPES.inspect

StrinIO
 #write
 #truncate
 #close
 #rewind

hi,

I rewrote escape, unescape, and query_parse in a C extension.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/four.livejournal/20070922/http_helpers.tar.bz2

# edge rails, event driven mongrel

~/_merb/merb/trunk > ab -n 2000 -c 20 http://localhost:3000/bench/hello 
This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3d <$Revision: 1.73 $> apache-1.3
Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/

# edge rails
~/bench-rails > ab -n 2000 -c 20 http://localhost:3000/bench/hello 
This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3d <$Revision: 1.73 $> apache-1.3
Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright (c) 1998-2002 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Merb::Router.prepare do |r|
   #routes
   MyPlugin.routes(r)
  #more routes
end

I need to run some cron jobs that clean up a table T which is used and
created by the foreground rails controller.  This could naturally lead
to synchronization issues/race conditions etc

ey01-s00200 data # ab -n  100000 -c 200 http://localhost/foo.html
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

ey01-s00200 data # ab -n  100000 -c 100 http://localhost/foo.html
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

    I made an interesting observation using webservers (not just mongrel) under red hat enterprise
linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 5). Maybe this is helpful or somebody with deeper networking
expertise can comment on this.

Once client said that 1-2% of the response of our server were unacceptably slow (really huge 3s-21s).