Isn't the most common reason for such a middleware caused by restarting a
Rails process. If so, wouldn't this middleware be shut off?

-- Yehuda

2009/2/19 Harry Vangberg <ichverstehe@gmail.com>

>
> I needed some easy way to show a maintenance page while doing stuff,
> and I can't be bothered with mod_rewrite and heaps of documentation,
> so this piece of (stupidly named) middleware checks wether a given
> file exists, and if it does that is served for all requests, otherwise
> the request is just passed on down the chain.
>
> use Rack::Backstage('tmp/maintenance.html')
>
> It's here:
> http://github.com/ichverstehe/rack-contrib/commit/d3610732b8a37a1e97befdb75bfd3824767a9bf9




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