[wsf-c-dev] [Ruby] What are people using in production?

[Chintana Wilamuna]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:34:35 +0600, Samisa Abeysinghe <samisa at wso2.com>
wrote:

> It looks to me as if unlike mod_php, mod_ruby is not the proffered 
> deployment option with Ruby. I hear that it is not working on
> Windows, can someone please confirm; and if that is the case no point
> looking into mod_ruby, because we have to target what people are
> using in production.

People use FastCGI to speedup their Rails apps.  FastCGI can run with
Apache or Lighttpd.  Mongrel is also popular
(http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/).

> Is the Rails what people really use, or are there any other stuff
> that we have to worry when it comes to Ruby?

I think most people use Ruby through Rails.  Not many people are
writing plain Ruby apps in their servers.

Bye,

    -Chintana

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