From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-11-26T05:52:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby a good choice for CGI?

On Wednesday 25 November 2009 02:38:32 pm Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> David Masover wrote:
> > Passenger and mod_ruby are essentially the same thing, IIRC.
> 
> You do not RC. :)  Passenger is the same as mod_rails.  mod_ruby is an
> older module, suitable for CGI scripts but not Rails (and therefore I
> would assume it's not suitable for Sinatra).

Ah. And probably not.

I guess it would make more sense, if it was called mod_ruby -- it's a lot 
closer to mod_perl than the current mod_ruby is, and it's not Rails-specific 
anymore.

> There's also Merb, which is used by SproutCore sort of in the way the OP
> is describing.

I've been trying to use Merb as a replacement for Rails in general. But then, 
I haven't done much with either lately.

Unless something's changed, there was a plan for Merb and Rails to merge -- 
that Rails 3 would be Merb 2, and vice versa.

...and there's also Ramaze. And Nitro. And...

It seemed like the original poster was asking someone to recommend a single 
choice. I think for that problem, Sinatra beats Merb, hands-down -- right down 
to the fact that it's constructing a text response.

> > On the other hand, you could technically deploy this with Passenger.
> > Some
> > people find it easier, but I like deploying with Capistrano anyway.
> 
> They're not mutually exclusive.  Cap + Passenger is a great combination.

Granted, but when I talk to people using Passenger, the #1 reason they tell me 
is ease of deployment -- the idea that you'd just FTP up a file into a certain 
directory to restart your app.

Compared to that, 'cap deploy' seems at least as simple and MUCH safer.

And once you've got that set up, a more complex deployment only means a more 
complex cap script -- the Github setup doesn't really look harder to use than 
Passenger.