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So it’s worth reading The performance test of 6 leading frameworks though I found it lacking. The methodology is so far removed from a real world scenario that it’s hard to be swayed by the numbers. The results were that Django comes out first in performance, followed by TurboGears and Ruby on Rails [...]

Well, it’s true, almost all web servers do not proxy efficiently to a cluster of mongrel servers as was detailed in “Yet another post on how to setup Ruby on Rails to deal with high traffic websites.” I tried, in order, apache 2.2, pound 2.0, nginx 0.4.13 which are the more popular web server [...]

Not that I have a high traffic ruby on rails site yet but the time will come and I want to try and set it up well from the start. The main problem is that ruby on rails is not thread-safe so each request must be handled by a separate process. So generally [...]

I wanted to get ferret running for a ruby on rails project. It had a few dependencies that were needed to get it working with cferret (the fast c port of parts of lucene).