# Best ruby web framework? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 15, 2010, 9:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-ruby-web-framework/195009 "2010-09-15T09:42:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrashi12)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 9:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-ruby-web-framework/195009/1 "2010-09-15T09:42:57Z")
As my subject line says the question is about ruby web framework Which is the best ruby web framework? Is it good in performance and speed to use ruby without any framework (running on Apache) ? ---
**Author:** ![mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrashi12)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 11:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-ruby-web-framework/195009/2 "2010-09-15T11:06:05Z")
2010/9/15 Mohammed R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > As my subject line says the question is about ruby web framework > > Which is the best ruby web framework? The most popular is Rails certainly. But I use Sinatra (a light framework) for the project. > Is it good in performance and speed to use ruby without any framework > (running on Apache) ? Do you mean running ruby with CGI? For performance CGI is not that good. Regards. ---
**Author:** ![mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrashi12)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 11:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-ruby-web-framework/195009/3 "2010-09-15T11:13:41Z")
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Young W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > 2010/9/15 Mohammed R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > > As my subject line says the question is about ruby web framework > > > > Which is the best ruby web framework? > > The most popular is Rails certainly. > But I use Sinatra (a light framework) for the project. which is the best in terms of performance and speed > > Is it good in performance and speed to use ruby without any framework > > (running on Apache) ? > > Do you mean running ruby with CGI? > For performance CGI is not that good. running Ruby script using apache like php. putting the source in /var/www and calling like [http://localhost/test.rb](http://localhost/test.rb) ---
**Author:** ![mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrashi12)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-ruby-web-framework/195009/4 "2010-09-15T13:06:39Z")
I think your best bet us to go with rails 3 and ruby 1.9.2. Sent from my iPhone ---
**Author:** ![mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrashi12)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-ruby-web-framework/195009/5 "2010-09-15T15:31:43Z")
Mohammed R. wrote: > running Ruby script using apache like php. > putting the source in /var/www > and calling like [http://localhost/test.rb](http://localhost/test.rb) mod\_ruby does exist but please don’t use it - very few people use it and it hasn’t been developed in about 2 years. Either use Phusion Passenger, or use a Ruby webserver like mongrel, thin or unicorn (which if you want to combine with Apache, you’d simply proxy to it using mod\_proxy) ---
**Author:** ![mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrashi12)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-ruby-web-framework/195009/6 "2010-09-15T15:14:54Z")
Mohammed R. wrote: > As my subject line says the question is about ruby web framework > > Which is the best ruby web framework? The “best” framework depends on what your requirements are. If there were one “best”, the others would already have died 🙂 > Is it good in performance and speed to use ruby without any framework > (running on Apache) ? Yes. Your best option is to use Apache with Phusion Passenger (mod\_rails). This lets you write applications using the Rack API directly. Using the raw Rack API, you just implement one method (‘call’) which is invoked for each incoming request, and you return an array containing the status, headers and body. See: [http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide.html#\_tutorial\_example\_writing\_and\_deploying\_a\_hello\_world\_rack\_application](http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide.html#_tutorial_example_writing_and_deploying_a_hello_world_rack_application) This is a good solution; mod\_rails manages your processes, and can spawn extra instances for load-sharing. Your other main option is fastcgi, but this is falling out of use. Note that “performance and speed” is rarely the number one goal of application development - usually it’s something like time to market, which gives you a real business benefit. That’s the main reason for using a framework like Sinatra or Rails. But both of these sit on top of Rack, so you can combine them with raw Rack code for the one or two actions which demand the fastest possible response rate. So I’d suggest: write your application first, using whichever tool lets you develop it quickest, and _then_ profile it and optimise where required. B. ---
**Author:** ![mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrashi12)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-ruby-web-framework/195009/7 "2010-09-15T15:57:02Z")
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Mohammed R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > As my subject line says the question is about ruby web framework > > Which is the best ruby web framework? > Is it good in performance and speed to use ruby without any framework > (running on Apache) ? If you’re specifically interested in apache integration, someone posted [http://www.linterra.org/rsp/](http://www.linterra.org/rsp/) recently. Not used it but it looks interesting. martin ---
**Author:** ![mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrashi12)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-ruby-web-framework/195009/8 "2010-09-15T15:42:59Z")
> running Ruby script using apache like php. > putting the source in /var/www > and calling likehttp://localhost/test.rb and if you become popular, you will need to cache as much generated HTML as possible, and serve as many files directly from the hard drive as possible, so you will need all the caching, routing, and redirecting systems that are built into real LAMP stacks, such as RoR RoR also features an industry-leading community, documentation, free and paid support, and thousands of plugins… ---
**Author:** ![mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@mrashi12](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrashi12)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-ruby-web-framework/195009/9 "2010-09-15T16:10:30Z")
If you like Apache (and Debian/Ubuntu), you might like rsp. I have spent years with Apache and love it. RSP is kind of a glorified Apache module for Ruby with a small framework on top. It’s pretty simple. But that’s what I like. You can use it in the context of a raw CGI (though it will run more efficiently than CGI), embedded Ruby (like PHP), and within a simple MVC context. The downside is that I have developed exclusively for Debian/Ubuntu, which is what I use every day, so it’s geared for that environment. It will compile/run on other distros and BSD. But I’ve not had the time to package it for them. And it’s written for Ruby 1.9.x. Everything’s in the documentation. I’ve worked really hard on keeping it up to date.