Mongrel on Rails
Developing using Rails has largely been good but I just can’t stand the dog that’s WeBrick. As I use a Windows development machine at work, WeBrick performance has been terrible for me. On average, it takes between 30 seconds to 1 and a half a minutes for a request to complete when I test my application on development mode.
Which totally sucks the energy out of me after about…oh….1 hour.
So, I was a little skeptical when Mongrel was released by Zed Shaw. It’s in the same vein as WeBrick in that it’s a ruby implementation. But its calling card is its speed compared to WeBrick, the initial benchmarks conducted by Zed showed that it is several magnitudes faster than Webrick.
With Mongrel 0.3.11, Win32 services support is pretty sweet and I’m able to run the same application in either ‘development’ or ‘production’ mode without having to modify any configuration file.
Taking it for a initial speed test on my laptop just made me a Mongrel fan, response times for requests are SO MUCH faster than before.