I haven’t tried the gem with L or XL instances, but I don’t see why it would make a difference.

Try “ec2run ami-30f11459 –instance-type m1.xlarge -k <keypair>”, get the instance id once the instance starts and then do “cap instance:bootstrap”…

You will have to remotely connect to the instance to change the number of mongrels.

“cap instace:ssh”

Monit and Mongrel configurations can be found in “/etc/rails”. SV configs for Mongrels are in “/var/service”

Once you’re happy with your configuration, invoke “cap mongrel stop”, “cap monit:restart” and “cap mongrel:start” from your application’s capified directory.

“cap monit status” will display some useful info on the Mongrel instances.

Thanks for this gem.

Does this support the “large” and the “extra large” instance in amazon?

Also,how can we change the number of mongrel instances?

Any other tuning that you think would be useful?

Thanks,

At the moment, S3 seems to be the right tool for the job when it comes to backing up and restoring the database. SimpleDB definitely looks like something worth investigating, but I’m not sure whether it’s more appropriate than S3 for something as simple as database back ups.