use rack-timeout 0.1.0beta3

fix syntax problem in unicorn config

disconnect default mongoid session after forking.

adjust new relic method tracing.

Fix Content-Type header

The default Content-Type is text/html, but all of our endpoints return
JSON, so Content-Type is now correctly set to application/json.

(also provide a switch for query-level debugging output from moped.)

optimize request timeout settings for heroku

* use Rack::Timeout, set to 20s
* set unicorn timeout to 25s

Ideally these are set lower, around 10s/15s, however we need to reduce long-running requests (such as notifier batch pulls) before we can safely do this.

Allow more endpoints to use commentable_ids param

The commentable_ids param is a comma-delimited list of ids indicating
that only threads belonging to one of the specified commentables should
be returned. It can now be used by any endpoint that delegates to
handle_threads_query (most importantly "#{APIPREFIX}/threads"), and
the commentable_id field is now indexed for efficient filtering. The
motivation for this change is to allow clients that are filtering by
commentable_ids to avoid using the /search/threads endpoint, which does
not do sorting and pagination correctly.

Feature/jsa/track slowdowns

Feature/jsa/more new indexes

* use Content model (to avoid querying mongo with "$in")
* add indexes for non-default sorts
* streamline api code

less user queries

performance.

Add newrelic_moped

This will hopefully give us more insight into mongo performance.

This corresponds to the Gemfile change in a9d281ad.

Allow authentication by HTTP header

Previously, authentication could only be done using a URL parameter,
which appears in various logs. Now, clients can authenticate using a
more appropriate HTTP header.

update to latest newrelic rpm

Revert "Merge pull request #29 from edx/chore/markchang/replace-rvmrc"

This reverts commit d97009d1, reversing
changes made to a9d281ad.

moved to more standard .ruby-gemset and .ruby-version from .rvmrc