# What deployment setup are production Rails sites using? and

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**Created:** [August 15, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-deployment-setup-are-production-rails-sites-using-and/65038 "2006-08-15T19:51:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![vasudevram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/bbce88/32.png) [@vasudevram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vasudevram)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-deployment-setup-are-production-rails-sites-using-and/65038/1 "2006-08-15T19:51:14Z")

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Hi,

Did some Google searching, came across James Duncan Davidson’s blog  
posts and some other hits on this topic (Rails deployment). But thought  
of asking here as well.

What deployment setup are production Rails sites using?  
I mean things like combination of Apache + FCGI / SCGI, or Mongrel,  
etc. And the pros and cons.

Appreciate hearing any inputs from people who’ve done this (from both  
the dev and the admin angles) and/or any links.

Will summarize later after getting some replies.

Thanks  
Vasudev

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**Author:** ![vasudevram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/bbce88/32.png) [@vasudevram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vasudevram)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-deployment-setup-are-production-rails-sites-using-and/65038/2 "2006-08-15T19:57:16Z")

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On Tuesday 15 August 2006 18:50, vasudevram wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Did some Google searching, came across James Duncan Davidson’s blog  
> posts and some other hits on this topic (Rails deployment). But thought  
> of asking here as well.
> 
> What deployment setup are production Rails sites using?  
> I mean things like combination of Apache + FCGI / SCGI, or Mongrel,  
> etc. And the pros and cons.

Your question is more suited to the ruby on rails mailing list[1].  
Mongrel is  
becoming increasingly popular, SCGI less so and I imagine FCGI too.  
People  
commonly use Apache or lighttpd with Mongrel, or Pen, Balance, Pound in  
front  
of it. Check out the Mongrel website [2] for information on plenty of  
Mongrel  
deployment options.

Alex

1. [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)
2. [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/)