When I started using Rails around version 0.9, FastCGI was considered one of the best ways to deploy Rails. That went out of fashion but I don't know why. Then Mongrel was the hot thing and I've heard about Phusion Passenger.
What is wrong with deploying Rails with FastCGI? Was it just some sort of shared hosting problem?
Is anyone still using FastCGI and having success with Rails?
Thanks.
/sven
When I started using Rails around version 0.9, FastCGI was considered one of the best ways to deploy Rails. That went out of fashion but I don't know why. Then Mongrel was the hot thing and I've heard about Phusion Passenger.
What is wrong with deploying Rails with FastCGI? Was it just some sort of shared hosting problem?
Is anyone still using FastCGI and having success with Rails?
We always found it a bit flaky (on dedicated hardware). We switched away from it nearly 4 years ago so I don't really remember the precise flakiness but I vaguely recall fastcgi dispatches getting wedged and stuff like that.
Fred