Bradley Taylor says he's using these Capistrano tasks with Mongrel and that
they work at least on Debian:

task :mongrel_start, :roles => app do
  run "mongrel_rails start --chdir #{release_path} -d"
end

task :mongrel_stop do
  run "mongrel_rails stop --chdir #{release_path}
end

task :mongrel_restart do
  run "mongrel_rails restart --chdir #{release_path}
End

As for cluster stuff, it's planned but not on the list for now.

Zed A. Shaw
http://www.zedshaw.com/
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/


On 4/8/06 12:53 AM, "Michael Schoen" <schoenm / earthlink.net> wrote:

> Zed Shaw wrote:
>> This keeps Mongrel light and lets people extend it for their own needs.
>> There's already people using GemPlugins to implement management commands
>> through Capistrano, security enhancements, and monitoring for Mongrel.
> 
> Do you know if those folks would mind sharing the Capistrano and
> monitoring plugins?
> 
> Also, are you planning on something like scgi_cluster, to make it easier
> to configure and manage clusters of Mongrels (eg, proxied behind lighttpd)?
> 
>