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f0dder:
I'm currently working on a project that among other things includes a part written in Ruby, running on a linux box. Up to now we've been running it under WebRick on the test server, but I'd like moving to a real web daemon - and now I'm wondering what my choices are.

Apache is a no-go. It's not entirely for rational reasons, but I feel it's too big and clunky and dusty.

For my own little webserver I've been using lighttpd which has served me pretty well, and is probably what I'll end up using unless there's better suggestions. This thread is mainly to see if there's something even better, since I haven't shopped around for httpds for several years :)

Also, is there any particular stuff I should know about having ruby running under a httpd? I managed getting it running on my own server, but have no idea whether it's running interpreted or in jit'ing vm - afaik the default for ruby is interpreted, but there's several VMs available?

40hz:
Can't really comment on the ramifications for Ruby. (I just declined to get involved in a Ruby based project a short while ago and have very little knowledge about how that language/framework operates.) But I am a fan of lighttpd. Nowadays I'll only go with Apache if I need it's full feature set or need to integrate something that requires it. Otherwise it's lighttpd all the way. And that's better than 80% of the time.

f0dder:
Can't really comment on the ramifications for Ruby. (I just declined to get involved in a Ruby based project a short while ago and have very little knowledge about how that language/framework operates.)-40hz (November 18, 2010, 03:50 PM)
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Relatively rapid development (as long as you follow The True Path), pretty slow execution :)

I'll wait a bit and see if there's other comments (we have about a month before finaly deployment has to be done), but I'll likely end up with lighttpd.

Tuxman:
For my own little webserver I've been using lighttpd which has served me pretty well, and is probably what I'll end up using unless there's better suggestions. This thread is mainly to see if there's something even better, since I haven't shopped around for httpds for several years :)-f0dder (November 18, 2010, 07:04 AM)
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I use cherokee which supports Ruby rather well and is quite lightweight, too.
http://www.cherokee-project.com/screencasts.html

f0dder:
Oh, alternative suggestions!

Have you played with other webservers before? It'd be nice hearing why you explicitly chose Cherokee. Is it easy to configure? Got any tips for setting it up for Ruby (specifically RoR) apps?

I've also stumbled across Hiawata and nginx, and heard mentions that lighttpd have unfixed memory leaks. There's so much to investigate, *sigh* :)

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