Phusion Passenger VS ruby-build

Compare Phusion Passenger vs ruby-build and see what are their differences.

Phusion Passenger

A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js (by phusion)

ruby-build

A tool to download, compile, and install Ruby on Unix-like systems. (by rbenv)
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Phusion Passenger ruby-build
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4,965 3,846
0.1% 0.3%
8.8 8.8
9 days ago 2 days ago
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MIT License MIT License
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Phusion Passenger

Posts with mentions or reviews of Phusion Passenger. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-13.

ruby-build

Posts with mentions or reviews of ruby-build. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-11.
  • Test Driving a Rails API - Part One
    11 projects | dev.to | 11 Mar 2024
    Let’s get started. I prefer to manage my Ruby installations on my development machine with chruby paired with ruby-install. Another outstanding set of tools is rbenv with ruby-build. I highly recommend installing Ruby with one of those two sets of tools. Follow the instructions on their project’s READMEs. For this article, I’ll be running Ruby (MRI) v3.3.0.
  • what's the linux distribution you are using for rails dev?
    1 project | /r/rails | 15 Sep 2023
    Seems someone was able to fix your problem with openssl installed from linuxbrew, see herehttps://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build/discussions/2199
  • Ruby on Rails en Windows con WSL2
    2 projects | dev.to | 26 May 2023
    git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
  • Rails 7: production deploy from scratch (Ubuntu 22.04 edition)
    5 projects | dev.to | 2 Feb 2023
    $ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv $ echo 'eval "$(~/.rbenv/bin/rbenv init - bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc $ exec $SHELL $ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git "$(rbenv root)"/plugins/ruby-build $ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv-vars.git "$(rbenv root)"/plugins/rbenv-vars $ rbenv install 3.2.0 $ rbenv global 3.2.0 # Test complete install with rbenv-doctor $ curl -fsSL https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv-installer/raw/main/bin/rbenv-doctor | bash $ ruby -v # Shows ruby version number if correctly installed $ gem install bundler # You might be prompted to update some gems, see command below $ gem update --system 3.4.6 # Check if this is recommended after bundler installation $ bundle -v # Shows bundler version number if correctly installed
  • Ruby 3.2.0 Released
    2 projects | /r/ruby | 25 Dec 2022
    Great! Already available via ruby-build on rbenv!
  • Setup Ubuntu / WSL For Ruby Development
    3 projects | dev.to | 21 Nov 2022
    # Part One: Install basics # zlib1g-dev might be zlib-dev on Ubuntu 22.04 # lsb-release might be lsb_release on Ubuntu 22.04 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install \ git \ ca-certificates \ curl \ gnupg \ build-essential \ lsb-release \ zlib1g-dev \ libssl-dev \ zsh && \ sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)" # Part Two: Installs & sets up rbenv, installs ruby git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv && \ echo 'eval "$(~/.rbenv/bin/rbenv init - zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc && \ source ~/.zshrc && \ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git "$(rbenv root)"/plugins/ruby-build && \ rbenv install 3.1.2 && \ rbenv global 3.1.2 # Part Three: Optional minimum setup for Rails development echo "gem: --no-document" >> ~/.gemrc && \ gem install bundler && \ gem install rails
  • OpenSSL::Digest::DigestError when using MD4
    1 project | dev.to | 15 Nov 2022
    I'm using rbenv to manage Ruby versions, and it turns out they recently started building Ruby with OpenSSL 3.0 instead of OpenSSL 1.1.
  • Any suggestions on environment options to be able run old Ruby version required by an old app?
    3 projects | /r/ruby | 11 Nov 2022
  • Troubleshooting ruby build
    3 projects | dev.to | 10 Oct 2022
    ruby-build Wiki is good to learn.
  • Installing RoR on WSL
    2 projects | dev.to | 2 Jul 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Phusion Passenger and ruby-build you can also consider the following projects:

PM2 - Node.js Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer.

RVM - Ruby enVironment Manager (RVM)

Puma - A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism

ruby-install - Installs Ruby, JRuby, Rubinius, TruffleRuby or MRuby

Thin - A very fast & simple Ruby web server

rbenv - Manage your app's Ruby environment

Nodemon.io - Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development

chruby - Changes the current Ruby

forever - A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever)

fry - Simple ruby version manager for fish

TorqueBox - TorqueBox Ruby Platform

Tokaido - The home of the Tokaido app