James Duncan Davidson has written an article on some hard learned lessons for deploying Rails applications.
Real Lessons for Rails Deployment covers James’ experiences with Apache 1.3 through 2.2 on various platforms, and his his conclusion that, for now at least, lighttpd works best.
So, where are we? Oh yah. At this point, if you have the option: use Lighty. As a member of the ASF, it pains me a bit to say it. But then, Lighty is fast. Clean. Easy to compile. Easy to configure. It plain kicks ass. So it doesn’t pain me that much. Its select-based model brings a smile to my face. I’ve got at least one more webserver to write in my lifetime, but thanks to Lighty being here now, I can wait a bit before doing so.
James shares his thoughts on software versions, RubyGems , and deploying with SwitchTower. Do check it out, especially if you want a good sense of how Rails fares in a production scenario.
