From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-11-27T18:00:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby a good choice for CGI?

On Friday 27 November 2009 02:48:50 am Brian Candler wrote:
> David Masover wrote:
> > But basically what I'm hearing is that I'm right -- ease of
> > setup/deployment
> > is _the_ win for Passenger.
> 
> *and* ongoing management and tuning - it handles dynamic pools of
> processes for you

So does Unicorn, or maybe I'm not understanding.

> *and* RAM usage - when combined with REE, the forking of your app means
> much of the ruby object space is shared, so more performance for the
> same $$

Unicorn does this, too.

> *and* it has excellent documentation

That's a win, I guess.

I don't mean to start a big debate here, nor am I wanting to just shout "I 
heart Unicorn", I'm actually trying to understand pros and cons. I'm still 
seeing "ease of use" in some form as the big win for Passenger.