Re: funky process tree + stillborn masters

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> I assume you're using regular "unicorn" to run your Sinatra apps and not
> "unicorn_rails".  I made some largish cleanups to both for the 0.97.0
> release and and perhaps some bugs slipped into the "_rails" variant.

<snip>

> Jamie Wilkinson <jamie@tramchase.com> wrote:
> > Are the goofy worker processes in the process tree a real problem, or
> > just a red herring?
> 
> Not sure if it's a problem, but with Bundler I assume Rack itself is a
> bundled dependency, but you're starting unicorn_rails out of
> /usr/bin/unicorn_rails which indicates Unicorn is not bundled (and won't
> use the bundled Rack).  Can you ensure your unbundled Rack is the same
> version as the bundled one to be on the safe side?
> 
> I've yet to try bundler 0.9 (and have barely used earlier), but you can
> also try bundling Unicorn and using the bundled bin/unicorn(_rails)
> launchers instead to ensure a consistent environment.
> 
> Unicorn currently ends up (auto)loading "rack/utils" before the
> application is loaded, maybe it could (auto)load it after the app is
> loaded for preload_app users.

Do the following two patches help?  I've also pushed out a few
cleanups to unicorn.git and also put up a prerelease gem at:

  http://unicorn.bogomips.org/files/gems/unicorn-0.97.0.7.g22e3.gem

Shortlog of changes since 0.97.0:

Eric Wong (7):
      tests: fix to run under Ruby 1.9.2dev
      KNOWN_ISSUES: document Array#shuffle / Array#sample issue under 1.9
      unicorn_rails: use TOPLEVEL_BINDING for eval
      unicorn_rails: respect user's encoding in config.ru in 1.9
      unicorn_rails: rename variable for consistency
      bin/*: remove unnecessary listeners variable
      unicorn: load constants after app has loaded

>From e1a72d58add4260feb6da56d9d588270173da74f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:10:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] unicorn_rails: use TOPLEVEL_BINDING for eval

This is to ensure there are no namespace inconsistencies
---
 bin/unicorn_rails |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/unicorn_rails b/bin/unicorn_rails
index 37ee027..de2361e 100755
--- a/bin/unicorn_rails
+++ b/bin/unicorn_rails
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ def rails_builder(config, daemonize)
     when /\.ru$/
       raw = File.open(config, "rb") { |fp| fp.sysread(fp.stat.size) }
       raw.sub!(/^__END__\n.*/, '')
-      eval("Rack::Builder.new {(#{raw}\n)}.to_app", nil, config)
+      eval("Rack::Builder.new {(#{raw}\n)}.to_app", TOPLEVEL_BINDING, config)
     else
       require config
       Object.const_get(File.basename(config, '.rb').capitalize)
-- 

>From 22e3ed4de0e89b97dac91c95c796eb8a7f93e5de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:05:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] unicorn: load constants after app has loaded

This will help ensure we use the same version of Rack the
application uses and avoid loading conflicting/incompatible
versions.
---
 lib/unicorn.rb |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/unicorn.rb b/lib/unicorn.rb
index b63abeb..75ce09d 100644
--- a/lib/unicorn.rb
+++ b/lib/unicorn.rb
@@ -800,15 +800,15 @@ module Unicorn
 
     def build_app!
       if app.respond_to?(:arity) && app.arity == 0
-        # exploit COW in case of preload_app.  Also avoids race
-        # conditions in Rainbows! since load/require are not thread-safe
-        Unicorn.constants.each { |x| Unicorn.const_get(x) }
-
         if defined?(Gem) && Gem.respond_to?(:refresh)
           logger.info "Refreshing Gem list"
           Gem.refresh
         end
         self.app = app.call
+
+        # exploit COW in case of preload_app.  Also avoids race
+        # conditions in Rainbows! since load/require are not thread-safe
+        Unicorn.constants.each { |x| Unicorn.const_get(x) }
       end
     end

-- 
Eric Wong
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