Thin
A very fast & simple Ruby web server (by macournoyer)
Phusion Passenger
A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js (by phusion)
Thin | Phusion Passenger | |
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3 | 9 | |
2,261 | 4,969 | |
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3.4 | 9.1 | |
2 months ago | 4 days ago | |
Ruby | C++ | |
Ruby License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Thin
Posts with mentions or reviews of Thin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-07.
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How to Use Sinatra to Build a Ruby Application
This one file contains everything needed for this simplified app to run. Run it with ruby main.rb, which should spin up an instance of the Thin web server (the default web server that comes with Sinatra). Visit localhost:4567 and you'll see the JSON response.
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Newb here: have you written your own web server? Seeking advice
The other major thing you'll run into is performance. WEBrick's HTTP parsing code may look hairy but it is fast. Mongrel was the first Ruby HTTP server to implement it's HTTP parser in C using Ragel, which Thin, Unicorn, and Puma all copied; although there's a bug in the original Mongrel HTTP parser where it does not combine the values duplicate HTTP headers (yes, HTTP Header names can actually be repeated).
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The Definitive Guide to Rack for Ruby and Rails Developers
Now let's run our application using a different server. We'll use Thin, a small, simple, and fast web server.
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.
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Has something changed in Passenger with the new version?
Secondly, there is, of course, a bug with Passenger and /var/run/passenger-instreg (I can be found in that thread whining). My preferred fix for this is
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Part 3 — Adding Git, Passenger and Nginx
While there is a debate on which ones are the best, we will be using Passenger and Nginx, since they are both fast and reliable. You may wish to do your own research and see which one works for you.
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How To Deploy a Rails App With Passenger and Nginx On Digital Ocean Part 1 — Creating SSH
In this tutorial we will be deploying a Rails app with Passenger, as the application server, and Nginx, as the web server. Also, the Rails app will use Postgres, so we will be installing that as well.
- Passenger: Enterprise grade web app server for Ruby, Node.js, Python
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I'm having trouble understanding what Rack does. Could you explain-like-I-am-a-beginner? with real examples if possible please.
Here's Puma's implementation, and Here's Passenger's implementation.
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Rails 7 new production install: from zero to deploy (Ubuntu 20.04 edition)
server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; server_name YOUR_DOMAIN.ORG; # If you deploy without DNS and SSL, you could leave servername blank like below # server_name _; root /home/deploy/APPNAME/current/public; passenger_enabled on; passenger_app_env production; passenger_env_var RUBYOPT '-r bundler/setup'; # Cf issue: https://github.com/phusion/passenger/issues/2409 # Uncomment if you use ActionCable and/or Turbo Streams # location /cable { # passenger_app_group_name APPNAME_websocket; # passenger_force_max_concurrent_requests_per_process 0; # } # Allow uploads up to 100MB in size client_max_body_size 100m; location ~ ^/assets { expires max; gzip_static on; } }
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Passenger 介紹
> passenger start =============== Phusion Passenger Standalone web server started =============== PID file: /home/leon/Git/MasoniteDemo1/passenger.3000.pid Log file: /home/leon/Git/MasoniteDemo1/passenger.3000.log Environment: development Accessible via: http://0.0.0.0:3000/ You can stop Phusion Passenger Standalone by pressing Ctrl-C. Problems? Check https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/admin/standalone/troubleshooting/ ===============================================================================
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5 Basic Things you need to know about managing a Linux server
PHP is great, but not for all of us. What about running Node.js or Python apps? You might be tempted to use proxy_pass but it won't handle the app startup and crashes for us. Luckily we have a better option: Phusion Passenger.
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Guide on How to Deploy Rails API app
I have been following all day guides on https://www.phusionpassenger.com/ on how to deploy Rails apps with Apache and Passenger.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Thin and Phusion Passenger you can also consider the following projects:
Puma - A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism
PM2 - Node.js Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer.
Unicorn - Unofficial Unicorn Mirror.
Goliath - Goliath is a non-blocking Ruby web server framework
Nodemon.io - Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development
falcon - A high-performance web server for Ruby, supporting HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and TLS.
forever - A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever)
Reel
TorqueBox - TorqueBox Ruby Platform
Rack - A modular Ruby web server interface.
supervisor - Supervisor process control system for Unix (supervisord)