Spent a chunk of yesterday setting up monit to restart bloated mongrels. Gad, that sounds nearly pornographic.

  • Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide - Still in beta, this Pragmatic Press book gave me a good start on getting monit set up despite a few typos.

  • monit - The official site for this monitoring and management utility.

  • Bowtie - Apache and monit configuration generator.

  • god - Alternative to monit that I stumbled over too late to seriously consider for the current project.

  • Big Medium - This looks like a nice midrange CMS for sites that don't need to be completely custom.