From: Judson Lester <nyarly@...>
Date: 2009-11-26T06:00:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby a good choice for CGI?

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On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:52 PM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:

> > > 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.
>
> To my mind, Passenger's appeal is that it embeds Rack in Apache - so you
get the benefits of mod_ruby (not restarting the interpreter with each
request) plus the benefits of Rack (although one does see critiques of the
Rack/WSGI approach to middleware...) in one place.  That's a win in and of
itself - but I'm a systems guy, and deployment was going to be something
(rake or cap)-ish anyway.

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