Re: Setting tmp dir

[Chris Cherry <ctcherry@gmail.com>]

Wow, that's a bit ridiculous. We shall call this Tmphell!

On Jun 8, 7:00 pm, Randy Fischer <randy.fisc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just as an amusing aside - I had to set up a temp variable for mongrel
> once (/var/tmp  & /tmp weren't large enough), so I was prepared for
> this particular Rack issue.
>
> Every package seems to want to specify this a different way.  Currently,
> using sinatra/passenger from apache, I have one virtual host defined
> with the following:
>
>    SetEnv TMPDIR                     /some/big/place
>    PassengerUploadBufferDir     /some/other/big/place
>
> TMPDIR points rack to a place where it can (sigh) make its
> rewindable input.  (I regularly have multi-GB file uploads,
> destined for different filesystem partitions)
>
> PassengerUploadBufferDir points to a place where, somewhat
> at phusion's whim, it will use for storing post data.  But it has
> to be writable by the apache worker process, so I just give
> up and chmod it 1777).
>
> Too Many Buffers!
>
>
>
> > >http://github.com/rack/rack/blob/master/lib/rack/utils.rb#L450
> > > > and I think we could add a class instance variable with accessors to
> > > > adjust it, defaulting to Dir.tmpdir.
> > > > If you want to, you can submit a patch for that, or overwrite
> > > > Dir.tmpdir after requiring tmpdir.
>
> > > > --
> > > > Michael Fellinger
> > > > CTO, The Rubyists, LLC