From: Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2005-04-28T09:37:59+09:00
Subject: Re: General Questions


Le 28/4/2005, "Jason Smith" <jason@smithss.com> a �crit:
>I have a couple general questions about Ruby.
>
>1.  How does it compare to PHP in server load tests and is there a
>drastic speed change when loading a page?
>We have an application right now that is written in PHP it probably gets
>around 10 hits per minute except between 8:00 and 9:00 AM.  We use this
>application to manage users authentication against a chat support
>application.  Right now PHP is working fine but a couple of our
>developers have decided to try out Ruby and see what they think of it.
>I am wondering if this will make a noticeable difference in speed to the
>users?

A recent test by a Java developer showed that the Rails framework
(which is not the most lightweight implementation though not bad
either) over Apache/FCGI manages to put out 1500-plus requests per
second.

While ruby is slightly slower than PHP for some web tasks, I would
not expect any performance issues, though you would likely want to
run FCGI rather than mod_ruby or plain CGI.

>2.  I have noticed that Ruby puts out updates fairly often,  how secure
>is Ruby and how difficult is it to apply a security patch or update
>compared to PHP?  What is the best way to stay informed of security
>exploits and to find patches?  Mailing lists, Forums, Homepage?

I do not recall many security-related updates for ruby itself;
this mailing list is usually the best source of updates.

>Thanks,
>
>Jason

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