From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-11-26T08:54:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby a good choice for CGI?

Judson Lester wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Well for one thing, many sites are a mixture of static assets and
>> dynamic content. It's much more efficient to serve the static assets
>> from a webserver tuned for serving this sort of content, rather than
>> serving your entire site from a ruby server.
>>
> 
> I wanted to amplify with use cases that run more than one app on the 
> same
> server.   My experience is that getting two *Rails* apps to play nicely 
> in
> the same environment is a pain.  But certainly easier than getting 
> Mongrel
> to run PHP.  With Passenger I can run Rails alongside PHP, and serve 
> static
> content far more efficiently. 

And running multiple Rails apps with one Passenger installation is 
likwise a breeze.


> (nginx is on my saw-sharpening list...)
> 
> Judson

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