From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-03-31T09:54:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Poor efficency of Ruby...

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:54:44 +0900, JZ <spamerom@niet.com> wrote:
> Dnia Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:38:30 +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson napisa�(a):
> 
> > There's no connection between the CGI gateway and the ./script/server.
> >
> > This is what happens on every single CGI request:
> >
> > 1) Require the entire Rails framework
> > 2) Configure the Rails classes according to the environment
> > 3) Load your application classes
> > 4) Perform the action
> >
> > After which all that hard work in 1-3 is thrown away. Running with
> > FastCGI, you experience 1-3 once, and just do 4 over and over again.
> 
> As I can see, Rails is *not* an application server, as someone mentioned.
> It is a couple of Ruby scripts and modules working together. Am I right?
> 

That's correct.

However, Ruby comes with a web server called Webrick.  script/server
starts that web server.