Anyway, unless you are using your Mac as a server, why are you running
Passenger on it in the first place? Mongrel is perfectly suitable for
development.
A lot of people:
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Work on more than one site at a time (during a day)
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Want it always available rather than having to remember to start the server
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Prefer to host as much as possible on the same technology (Apache, Passenger, MySQL is much better than Mongrel/SQLite even if you develop on Mac OS X and deploy on Linux).
I know I do (all of the above).
Cheers,
Andy