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Requirements:

  • Be restartable without denying or prematurely closing requests (unicorn's SIGUSR2 being the "gold standard")
  • Log information about requests in logstash compatiable JSON, including request path, request time & status code. Optionally should include request parameters, content length, content type & time spent in DB, views, external services
  • Report exceptions to Rollbar & not die if an exception is encountered
  • Connect to external resources via environment variables, optionally also via command line flags (cf 12factor app)
  • Allow for automatic destruction/creation of database tables in tests
  • Allow for programmatic migration of database tables in production (standard: rake db:migrate)
  • Require no filesystem resources other than its own binary (eg, no db.yml or migrations directory)
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