From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2004-02-15T03:05:20+09:00
Subject: Re: webrick-fcgi 0.1.0

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 06:55:03PM +0900, MikkelFJ wrote:
> 
> "Aredridel" <aredridel@nbtsc.org> skrev i en meddelelse
> news:20040214011251.GC5614@mail.nbtsc.org...
> > I've been working this week on a webrick servlet compatible module using
> > FCGI.  I prefer Apache as a general webserver, the process separation of
> > CGI and FastCGI over mod_ruby, and the webrick API -- so I combined
> > them.
> >
> > I'd appreciate comments, suggestions, improvements, and certainly not
> > least, success stories.
> 
> I think FastCGI is the way to go.
> 
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/52598
> 

Absolutely. In my testing, it has been the most stable and flexible for
my uses: I'm not writing a single script system, so mod_ruby's
namespacing issues are painful.  I don't want scripts owned by different
users, in different parts of the system to clash.

Privilege separation is important -- FCGI allows scripts to run under
different userids than the webserver. That's a plus.

No need for separate apache instances for different configurations.

Now, on top of that, WEBrick is a standard part of the distribution now,
so I imagine many interesting things will be released as servlets only
-- compatibility with that is a must, but I'm stuck with Apache for
other parts of my site, and mod_proxy seems a brittle solution.

All this led me to create the module, so I can use webrick servlets
under fastcgi.

Ari