# What have you proven?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-have-you-proven/175026>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 6, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-have-you-proven/175026 "2009-09-06T13:19:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![rpflaum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@rpflaum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rpflaum)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-have-you-proven/175026/1 "2009-09-06T13:19:41Z")

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I’m lost why your doing test using WEBrick. Unless you plan to use it  
as your production server you’re likely to get a completely different  
profile of results using Apache.

You’ve proven that there is a difference between performance of 2.2.2  
and 2.3.3 under WEBrick. The question is what does that mean? That may  
be reflected in Apache or Nginx or the results could be completely the  
opposite. WEBrick results could be a hint as to what happens in real  
production servers but you don’t know until you try you benchmarks on  
real production servers.

Also, you benchmarks need to reflect your actual workload but as Opera  
would say ‘thats a whole nother show’.

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**Author:** ![rpflaum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@rpflaum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rpflaum)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-have-you-proven/175026/2 "2009-09-06T14:31:07Z")

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2009/9/6 Confused about Rails [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> real production servers.
> 
> Also, you benchmarks need to reflect your actual workload but as Opera  
> would say ‘thats a whole nother show’.

I am confused about what this message is about. There is no  
indication as to who you are asking and what you are referring to. Is  
it a follow up to a previous message, if so where is the quoted text  
so we can see what it is about?

Perhaps it is a problem at my end not linking it to a previous  
message, in which case apologies. Even if that is the case it is  
always a good idea to include some quoted text so the message more or  
less stands on it’s own.

Colin