Introducing Passenger
Phusion Passenger — a.k.a. mod_rails — makes deployment of applications built on the revolutionary Ruby on Rails web framework a breeze. It follows the usual Ruby on Rails conventions, such as “Don’t-Repeat-Yourself”.- Deployment is only a matter of uploading application files. No Ruby on Rails-specific server configuration required!
- Built on the industry standard Apache web server.
- Allows Ruby on Rails applications to use about 33% less memory, when used in combination with Ruby Enterprise Edition (optional).
- Zero maintenance. No port management, server process monitoring or stale file cleanup required. Errors are automatically recovered whenever possible.
- Designed for performance, stability and security. Passenger should never crash Apache even in case of crashing Rails applications.
- Well-documented, for both system administrators and developers!
See it in action
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This screencast (H.264, 19 MB, almost 3 minutes) of Phusion Passenger covers installation, deployment and a bit of elaboration as well. Many thanks to Ryan Bates from Railscasts for creating this screencast.
Various people have submitted a voice sample for use in our screencast. Even though they didn't make it in the final screencast, we'd like to thank them as well. They are, alphabetically sorted:
- Kyle Daigle
- Sam Figueroa
- Luke Hartman
- Joshua Wehner
Thanks all! If there's anyone we forgot to mention, please contact us.