README for Rhaproxy
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Rhaproxy is a gem providing a ruby interface to HAproxy TCP/HTTP Load Balancer.

To install, type 'gem install rhaproxy'

Usage:

      require 'rubygems'
      require 'rhaproxy'

      global = RhaproxyGlobal.new
      global.daemon = true
      global.maxconn = 256

      defaults = RhaproxyDefaults.new
      defaults.mode("http")
      defaults.timeout_connect("5000ms")
      defaults.timeout_client("50000ms")
      defaults.timeout_server("50000ms")

      frontend = RhaproxyFrontend.new
      frontend.name("http-in")
      frontend.default_backend("servers")

      backend = RhaproxyBackend.new
      backend.name("servers")
      backend.server("server1 127.0.0.1:8000 maxconn 32")

      config = Array.new
      config.push([global.config])
      config.push([defaults.config])
      config.push([frontend.config])
      config.push([backend.config])

      haproxy_conf_file = File.new("haproxy.conf", "w+")
      haproxy_conf_file.puts(config)
      haproxy_conf_file.close

haproxy.conf:

      global
        daemon
        maxconn 256

      defaults
        mode http
        timeout client 50000ms
        timeout connect 5000ms
        timeout server 50000ms

      frontend http-in
        default_backend servers

      backend servers
        server server1 127.0.0.1:8000 maxconn 32