The simple answer -- but one that probably won't satisfy your sysadmins -- is that Mongrel is just easier to work with.
It's a tool built specifically around Rails/Ruby, and as such it includes a lot of niceties that make using it a generally more pleasant experience. In my experience this is especially true if a) you are doing a lot of active development (because restarting the server and debugging is a lot easier than with FastCGI), and/or b) you plan on scaling later on with something like Mongrel cluster. Keep in mind that even though this might be a production environment, in the early stages of development you will probably find yourself having to debug things on the production instance. Environment-specific bugs will almost always show up. This is where FastCGI can be extremely annoying compared to Mongrel. Matt M. wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently deployed a rails app and our platform is Apache 2.2 + mongrel > cluster. It seems to be working fine... although no real tests yet. I just > recently found out that it is *quite* possible that the live server will > not > be getting an update to apache 2.2, and the current version is 1.3. So... > I've installed Apache 1.3 + FastCGI on the dev server and it's running fine > but... > > In order to get any chance of having the admins upgrade Apache on the live > server... they want to know what the advantages are over using FastCGI > (which is a simple Apache mod install). > > What makes Mongrel different that FastCGI? > > What are the pros and cons of both? > > Thank you for any feedback... I'm off to rdo more research! > > Matt > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users This e-mail message is privileged, confidential and subject to copyright. Any unauthorized use or disclosure is prohibited. Le contenu du pr'esent courriel est privil'egi'e, confidentiel et soumis `a des droits d'auteur. Il est interdit de l'utiliser ou de le divulguer sans autorisation. _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
