Right away, I could tell that the application was noticeably more responsive. I plan to let this run for a week and then I may put up some pre and post benchmark data.
My first impressions:
- mod_rails was easy to install using the documentation provided. I needed to install two pre-requisite packages on my CentOS 5.1 server: gcc-c++ and httpd_devel along with their own dependencies. The Yum package manager made quick work of that.
- mod_rails has a friendly installer which interpreted into plain English what otherwise would have been hairy looking build errors.
- mod_rails was easy to configure. I already had a virtual host set up for the Apache proxied mongrels. I only had to load the mod_rails module, remove the rewrite engine rules (as the docs instructed), restart Apache, and that was it.
My takeaways:
- Deploying with mod_rails is much simpler than deploying with proxied mongrels.
- It appears that mod_rails is much quicker than mongrel.
- There also appears to be a substantial memory savings in not have to run so many mongrels.
Hey, how about an update. Are you still loving the mod_rails?
ReplyDelete@david: Yes, mod_rails is still treating me well. I'm running a site that gets hammered with it and it has been holding up nicely. I plan to upgrade the site to mod_rails 2.x in the near future. As is true for most of us, I'm pretty slammed with work and other commitments so I'm sorry that I haven't been able to post any before/after metrics.
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