Greg Benedict

Thoughts on the web and creativity.

Category: thin

Fixing Ruby Gems, MySQL and Passenger Phusion on Snow Leopard 10.6

One of the first things I noticed after upgrading to Snow Leopard is that my Passenger based sites stopped working. I use this heavily for Rails development, so I needed it fixed. The first thing I tried was reinstalling Passenger Phusion, which led to an error.

Why Passenger Phusion Is a Better Hosting Solution Long Term

Since we started hosting Ruby on Rails applications in 2006, many of the pieces have changed. At each step, things became a bit easier and a bit faster. Here’s how things have changed.

The Next Evolution in Mongrel Is Thin

Update: Thin, Mongrel and all of the variants have been replaced by a much better solution. The Quick Background First there was Zed’s excellent (and much appreciated) baseline work that establish Mongrel as the front runner in ruby hosting. Something I’ve been using for well over a year in production behind nginx. From that baseline [...]