Hi,
>> If you want to keep your Apache2, I'd recommend using ModProxy and
>> Mongrel. For scaling purposes, it's normal to use several Mongrel
>> instances, but to make that work, you need ModProxyBalancer, which
>> comes with Apache 2.2.
>
> I've heard of issues with mongrel (from Reductive Labs incidentally),
> it might be worth looking at mod_passenger (aka mod_rails/mod_ruby I
> believe).
Phusion Passenger is excellent. I didn't suggest it because in my
head it's connected with Ruby Enterprise, and that was an extra thing
to get running on an oldish VPS.
> Have a look at brightbox.net for some prepackaged stuff.
You get get passenger up and running from a working rubygems:
$ gem update --system
$ gem install passenger
$ passenger-install-apache2-module
S.
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