From: Joseph McDonald <joe@...>
Date: 2002-09-05T08:59:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Options for optimizing a large Ruby system


FH> So now I'm looking around for ways to speed things up. Using modruby
FH> is probably an option, but I'm unsure as to whether that'll do what I

Take a look at fastcgi: http://www.fastcgi.com/
Basically your ruby code stays in memory and talks to your web server
(apache, iis, etc) via a socket.  This way you have clean separation
between the web serving process and the ruby cgi process (i.e. no need
for a bloated httpd just to serve up images or static text).

A fastcgi program will generally get its database connections and
other initialization tasks and then just go into a while loop
accepting requests from the server.

We use fastcgi with ruby and are quite happy with it.

Also see this: http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2002-SANE-DynCont/html/dyncont.html
fastcgi does very well.

regards,
-joe