Passenger For Nginx! Small Fast Simple Deployments Are A Reality!

Posted 11 months ago

When the Phusion team announced Passenger (mod_rails) last year for Apache, the Rails deployment crowd sighed a big sigh of relief. mod_rails finally provided a deployment method that was easy and more reliable than the various proxy configurations that we all had historically battled. Making the move back to Apache after dealing with the joy that was Nginx wasn’t the ideal choice, but many were willing to put up with Apache’s limitations if it meant not having to futz with mongrel_rails any more. For the last year, we’ve had customers using Passenger in production with great results, and we had switched all our internal tools to use Passenger as well.

Today, the Phusion team just announced Passenger for Nginx. You can read their blog post about this new release here. We’ve begun to implement this installation within our staging and test environments and are excited to begin migrating customers to this new platform as soon as possible. We’re also excited about the potential performance benefits and smaller RAM footprint that this installation method will provide.

Customers will now be able to get more bang for their buck, requiring less memory for their application servers, and stretching their dollars farther in this tough economic climate. This release today signals a win-win for any one deploying Rails applications in a production environment

Great job to the Passenger team! Every one owes them a drink at Rails Conf.

- Jesse Proudman
Blue Box Group