From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2004-08-23T12:52:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Gnome's Guide to WEBrick

Edwin Eyan Moragas <haaktu@gmail.com> writes:

> Many thanks to you for this. as a follow up,
> is anybody using webrick in production? how does it fare?

The first WEBrick-based RESTful server I built (see Author's Note) is
in final testing stage now. It will move to production around next
month, if there is no further problem, and so far, there isn't any.

Performance was quite acceptable, and we can scale it easily using
more machines, if needed; but I suspect the database backend is the
limiting factor, not that we have hit a bottleneck yet.

I do not expect a gazillion requests per second to hit the server. But
if there is indeed a gazillion requests per second, I strongly think
I'll have other, more substantial problem, than trying to scale the
server.

> i'm thinking of a pure ruby setup if it is feasible. if not,
> any recommendations?

Depends on what you are doing. If you are building a hello world
server, then sure. Otherwise, if you need a database backend, then
most likely you need a non-ruby database driver (Ruby DBI is only an
interface to those drivers). Other factors also determine whether a
pure-ruby setup is feasible or desirable.

YS.