Matz on Passenger
Recently, Yukihiro Matsumoto (a.k.a. Matz, the creator of Ruby) blogged about Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) on his weblog. Since our Japanese is a bit rusty, i.e. non-existant 
, Matz was kind enough to mail us a summary in English from which we quote:
It is often said that Rails is weak on deployment; PHP runs fairly fast just by uploading scripts. Rails is slow on development mode, and requires restarting on production mode (and bit complex to configure). modrails might be the answer for it.
Needless to say, coming from Matz, this made us feel real warm and fuzzy from inside 