From: Michael Garriss <mgarriss@...>
Date: 2003-09-11T03:42:46+09:00
Subject: Re: WEBrick and mod_ruby performance

Aredridel wrote:

>>Ah, ugh, dang, and that graph on the esehttpd site was so cool.  Well 
>>that book is still right next to my monitor, close call. ;)   I wonder 
>>if I can abstract away the server somehow so I can port my app to any 
>>server?
>>
>>I'm curious about using fastcgi with apache.  Right now I'm not using 
>>cgi.rb at all and just using the Apache::Request class (using my own 
>>cookie class, etc).  Are there speed benefits of using fastcgi over this 
>>approach?  If so can you give me a push in the fastcgi direction (a link 
>>or whatever)?
>>    
>>
>
>cgi.rb is that abstraction.  It handles apache requests, cgi and
>fast_cgi all in the same code.  An app written with fast_cgi in mind
>using the CGI module will work in all three environs.
>  
>

Excuse my noobness on this.  So when I do a look on RAA I find 
FastCGI-0.5 by Eli Green and also I find that there is  a mod_fastcgi 
for apache.  Which are we talking about?  Or do I have to have 
FastCGI-0.5 sit on top of mod_fastcgi?

Michael