Interview with Mongrel developer Zed Shaw
Posted by marcel May 18, 2006 @ 02:38 AM
Zed Shaw’s new (mostly) Ruby webserver Mongrel has been getting people’s attention lately. What started out as perhaps just an itch has turned into a full time project for Zed, backed by corporate funding.
Pat Eyler caught up with Zed over at O’Reillynet for an interview where Zed gives some details about the Mongrel project.
Many have already switched their apps over to use Mongrel. Keep an eye on it as an increasingly viable option for serving up your Rails applications.
Is there plans to replace Webrick with Mongrel?
I’m starting to use mongrel for development more than webrick; it’s just faster. :)
Since the idea of an http proxy is gaining ground, could the rails core work the reverse-proxy plugin into the core?
If anyone doesn’t know already: Zed is the man!
Are you guys seeing performance problems with the fact that rails controllers are essentially forced to single-threaded under mongrels? Or is it that fast???
dizave, just wanted to clarify that Rails is always single threaded, even under FastCGI, SCGI, and WEBrick. Under Mongrel it’s just exposed to you and isn’t a dirty little secret. Typically, people will take things that are too slow in Rails-
and therefore blocking certain actions-and either speed them up, move them to Mongrel handlers, or use BackgrounDRB by Ezra to off-load the processing.Thanks! I guess I had assumed when it was running in different process it wasn’t single threaded. I’ve obviously got some reading to do, and some Mongrel to install.