From: Shalev NessAiver <shalev@...>
Date: 2005-03-24T07:07:21+09:00
Subject: Re: need Rails advice

While I'm still pretty new to the whole deal, here's what I have:

Rails will run with mod_ruby or fastcgi.
The best performance seems to be with Apache lighthttpd and FastCGI.

That setup also seems to be the one most preferred (for good reason).

-Shalev


On Mar 23, 2005, at 5:01 PM, Chris Newman wrote:

> I have inherited an existing intranet web server that runs Apache 1.3 
> on
> Solaris 8. It is a bit limited so I am putting together a development 
> web
> server to test various Apache modules, Content Management Systems, 
> etc. The
> new server will run Apache 2.0 on Solaris 8. I was interested in 
> trying Ruby
> and perhaps even Ruby on Rails and I have a couple of questions...
>
> Should I use mod_ruby or fastcgi?
> Will there be a significant performance difference depending on which I
> choose?
> Will Rails work with both?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice,
>
> Chris