Difference between Mongrel and Webrick

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Hi Everybody,

I would like to know the exact difference between Mongrel and Webrick.

I have gone through few sites about Mongrel and Webrick differences. I came to know that Mongrel is fast, efficient than Webrick.

Are there any other differences other than this? Which one is better?

Are there any other servers other than Mongrel and Webrick.

Thanks in advance.

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Hi Everybody,

I would like to know the exact difference between Mongrel and Webrick.

I have gone through few sites about Mongrel and Webrick differences. I came to know that Mongrel is fast, efficient than Webrick.

Are there any other differences other than this? Which one is better?

That is pretty much the main difference - other than that they are pretty similar in scope

Are there any other servers other than Mongrel and Webrick.

thin and passenger (although you might consider that to be in a slightly different category) are two that spring to mind, there are a bunch more options in the jruby world but that's not something I'm familiar with

Fred

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Accidentally direct messaged, apologies.

WEBrick has basically been deprecated, even for development purposes. Mongrel is faster and more reliable and now the de facto standard in the community.

Alan

http://www.twitter.com/anachronistic

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WEBrick isn't depricated. Mongrel main development branch doesn't entirely work with Ruby 1.9 yet, although there seem to be plenty of patches which do appear to work.

http://rack.rubyforge.org/doc/ has a nice list of popular Ruby webservers.

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There’s also Unicorn.

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One of Mongrel's main differences is how efficiently and effectively it scales with multiple apps/clusters running at the same time. Try running 6 different applications using mongrel on 6 different ports and allow them all to tie into one another. Then, try the same thing with webrick and you'll understand quickly why Mongrel is better.

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WEBrick was dropped and isn't considered a serious contender. Mongrel replaced it. Even in 2007 you can find mention of WEBrick being "semi- deprecated" as Mongrel gained favor.

Technically, deprecated only means "should be avoided in favor of a more suitable alternative." Outright replaced is perhaps more accurate in this case.

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I would actually argue that even Mongrel at this point would be considered deprecated by that definition. Most deploy environments are using Passenger & even that is now looking like Unicorn might give it a run. I switched to using Passenger for my dev environment over a year ago.

Niels

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Niels Meersschaert wrote:


I would actually argue that even Mongrel at this point would be considered deprecated by that definition. Most deploy environments are using Passenger & even that is now looking like Unicorn might give it a run. I switched to using Passenger for my dev environment over a year ago.
Niels

Of course for those stuck on Windows for development, Passenger is not an option and Mongrel does the job.