[LRUG] On learning Ruby/Rails

[Tom Armitage]

Quoting Roland Swingler <roland.swingler at gmail.com>:

> mod_ruby isn't (afaik) anywhere near as stable as things like mod_php
> / mod_perl. One of the big differences between using php and ruby in a
> web environment is how much more complicated it is to deploy a rails
> app than it is to deploy something php-based.
>
> R.

As well as stability, mod_ruby is also very slow. That's because it  
instantiates a ruby interpreter for every request, and this isn't  
nearly as fast as something like FastCGI (where there's a single ruby  
process running in the background) or the load-balanced Mongrel  
configurations.