I got this blog working with [Mongrel](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/), a web server written in Ruby designed from running Rails applications. The main Textdrive Apache process is proxying the blog to the mongrel_rails process. This replaces the Apache to Lighttpd to Rails over FastCGI setup I was using before. In the previous post, I talked about how I switched over to starting the Rails process independently. That kept the lighttpd server from being killed but the rails fastcgi process was still dying. With Mongrel, there is only one thing to keep up.
The command was pretty simple:
mongrel_rails start -e production -d -p $PORT -c $DIR