Rails Myths and Phusion Passenger

Posted by Ric Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:23:00 GMT

I’ve enjoyed David Heinemeier Hansson’s Myths of Rails series of blog articles. In fact Myth #1 inspired me to stop delaying and finally try out Phusion Passenger.

It really is as simple as DHH says. Literally all you have to do is install the gem, run the installer and follow the (very simple) instructions which guide you through installing any missing prerequisites and setting up your rails app. For more details on installation and configuration, see the Passenger user guide. I got this blog moved over to Passenger a few hours after first visiting Phusion’s site.

Phusion’s Ruby Enterprise Edition is also worth a look – I’ve not done any thorough measurements myself, but on first look it does seem to use less RAM than ‘normal’ ruby.

If you like Passenger as much as me, you can buy (as I did) an enterprise edition for whatever price you think it’s worth, Radiohead-stylee.

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    marko 22 days later:

    I agree with how easy it is to deploy, my only wish is that it gets easy for application users as well. Eg we create an application, give people a tarball and tell them to upload it on their server and do one extra thing after that. I haven’t investigated whether it’s already possible with some cpanel extension though…

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