[Ruby] Good alternatives to Mongrel?

[Bryan Liles]

On Jan 5, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Scott Windsor <swindsor at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

How much success have you had with this? Fastcgi isnt very nice and it  
is one of the reasons mongrel exists today.