What is the best web server for Ruby on Rails application?

Question

What is the best web server for ruby on rails application? Why?

score 35 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 11 '11 at 10:48

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Both GitHub and 37 Signals use nginx + unicorn.

answered Jan 11 '11 at 10:48

Sai Perchard

Yes I also use the same combination with linode VPS, very neat. – Rameshwar Vyevhare May 19 '14 at 11:18

score 32 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 23 '09 at 21:51

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Passenger running on Apache. Easy to set up, low memory usage, and well supported.

answered Feb 23 '09 at 21:51

Luke

what about lighttpd did you chick it? – ecleel Feb 23 '09 at 21:58
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lighttpd has myriad problems, I wouldn't recommend it under any circumstances. – womble Feb 24 '09 at 00:16
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The free version isn't as good as I had hoped. Both [Iodine](https://github.com/boazsegev/iodine) and [Puma](https://github.com/puma/puma) seem to offer better handling of concurrency and slow client handling. – Myst Sep 12 '16 at 03:24

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 23 '09 at 21:52

5

Passenger is becoming the norm. It has more configuration options and is faster.

answered Feb 23 '09 at 21:52

ryeguy

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 21 '11 at 23:18

5

Additionally, for something very quick/easy on dev, try http://pow.cx/

answered Jun 21 '11 at 23:18

Sai Perchard

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