[Ruby] Good alternatives to Mongrel?

[Scott Windsor]

It depends on what you're using mongrel for.

I personally am not a big fan of using mongrel clusters for  
production rails deployments - you can't spin up or down new  
instances on the fly based on your current load.  I'd look into  
running rails as a fast cgi app, and then picking a webserver that  
you can configure with fastcgi (apache, lighttpd, nginx, etc).

If you're using merb or using mongrel as a simple stand-alone  
webserver, you might want to look around elsewhere.  I also don't  
think using mongrel as a front-end webserver scales very well.  It's  
not multi-threaded, so the only way to scale out is to run lots of  
mongrel (i.e. pack of mongrels or mongrel cluster), then front it  
with either another webserver or a load balancer.

- scott
On Jan 5, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Michael T. Halligan wrote:

> After reading Zed Shaw's homophobic, bigoted rant last week, I'm not
> terribly interested in using this guy's software. Are there any
> passable alternatives to Mongrel out there?
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