From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-03-03T03:59:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Chat Server in Ruby

Sebesty�n G�bor wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently evaluating Ruby as the server solution of a new chat
> software to write. The client would be Java they would communicate
> through http. Therefore Ruby would be behind Apache and it should use
> mysql as data backend.
>
> I'm asking you please help me making easy decision is Ruby enough
> stable, secure and scalable(?) to use it as server?
> Thank you,

You might want to consider using lighttpd, fastcgi, and ruby. All reports so
far seem to indicate that it is a very fast, scalable combination.

Curt