Earlier I posted about rails development servers and asked if mongrel
was on
its way out. Some suggested that I search group which I of course did
but
couldn’t come to a conclusion about which server folks are using these
days
for development. Does anyone know what rails team is suggesting or what
the
most common is outside of mongrel? It seems mongrel is not the choice
for
rails 3. I read a couple of posts about unicorn. Someone suggested
that
the rails team included unicorn in the Gemfile (commented out) as a
possible
hint to move onto something other than mongrel. Mongrel only works if
you
include it in the Gemfile which isn’t added by default. Mongrel has
been
the default development server for a while now but obviously there had
been
a shift. I am just trying to get back into the loop. Any thoughts?
only works if you include it in the Gemfile which isn’t added by default.
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Just my opinion, but WEBrick has always been the default server. Adding
mongrel to the default Gemfile makes it a required dependency and people
without it will have to install the gem first.
Any idea why the mongrel gem has been excluded from the Gemfile?
Not much info there, but gives you the author and date that it was
changed… maybe lighthouse or the rails-core list around those dates
would have more…
Not seeing anything in the lists/tickets though, but i’m not looking
super hard
Just my opinion, but WEBrick has always been the default server. Adding mongrel
to the default Gemfile makes it a required dependency and people without it will
have to install the gem first.
But why put unicorn in there commented out? Why switch from a commented
out mongrel to a commented out unicorn?
Just my opinion, but WEBrick has always been the default server.
Adding mongrel to the default Gemfile makes it a required
dependency and people without it will have to install the gem first.
But why put unicorn in there commented out? Why switch from a
commented out mongrel to a commented out unicorn?
IMO, WEBrick is the default fallback server because it’s pure Ruby and
thus doesn’t depend on native compiled libraries. However, it’s also
the slowest kid on the block.
Whether to use Unicorn, Mongrel, Thin or Passenger Standalone in
development is up to the developer himself. Mongrel has served me well
in the past and I still use it on older projects purely out of habit.
When I started using Rails 3 where Unicorn was the suggested (even
though it was commented out) development server, I started using that
and I have to say I’m pretty pleased with it. It does feel faster than
Mongrel and certainly more robust and based on its specs and
philosophy I would say it’s better apt for a reverse proxy production
environment than Mongrel was (although Mongrel worked just fine with
the right load balancing). Passenger Standalone might be a good choice
if you want to stay close to your Passenger production environment.
But in the end all ruby servers will do, just pick the one that feels
“right” to you.
Mongrel hasn’t seen a release for quite some time now, while Unicorn
is still being maintained. I’m guessing that’s the main reason behind
the commented-out-Mongrel-to-commented-out-Unicorn change. I think
it’s commented out by default because the Rails team doesn’t want to
force any particular development server by default. The uncommented
version is there to make you aware of the choice and to make it easy
to select that choice.
It should be noted that using Phusion Passenger Standalone as
development server does not require one to specify it in the Gemfile.
‘passenger start’ just works.
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