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

[Samisa Abeysinghe]

Samisa Abeysinghe wrote:
> Chintana Wilamuna wrote:
>> 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.
>>   
> Sounds like we have to look into the stream and message receiver 
> integration with Rails then, not mod_ruby.
I also found this: http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/scgi_rails/howto.html
So obviously, there are multiple deployment options even with rails. So 
we may have to decide on one option for our first release.

Samisa...

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