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Wow, the community has been on fire lately. 6 months after the first introduction of Phusion Passenger (our Rails deployment utility) and Ruby Enterprise Edition (which, in combination with Phusion Passenger, allows one’s Rails applications to use 33% less memory), people are still saying good things about us.

Tobias Lütke from Shopify has given us a lot of praise:

“At the same time Passenger introduced some tangible improvements. We switched to enterprise ruby to get the full benefit of the [Copy-On-Write] memory characteristics and we can absolutely confirm the memory savings of 30% some others have reported. This is many thousand dollars of savings even at today’s hardware prices.”

Not only that, 37signals has recently switched Ta-da List to Phusion Passenger. According to DHH, their system administrators have been very content with Phusion Passenger.

But there’s more.

We’ve been talking with DHH from 37signals about a sponsorship campaign for supporting the development of REE. We just received words that all funds have been secured. In the mean time, we had been working hard on developing REE, and so we will be releasing the improvements as well as announcing the sponsors in the very near future. The improvements are, in a nutshell:

• Integration with the RailsBench GC patches, allowing one to tweak the garbage collector for maximum performance.
• Better MacOS X support.
• Better 64-bit support.
• Better Solaris support.

Thank you, 37signals and other sponsors!

Stay tuned for more news.

A while ago someone had asked who’s using Phusion Passenger in production. The positive responses were overwhelming; thanks to all who had replied!

Ruby Enterprise Edition seems to get a bit less attention than Phusion Passenger, so we’re wondering how many people use Ruby Enterprise Edition in production. We need this information for marketing purposes, and seeing that we’re providing REE for free, we’d be really grateful if you could take some time to tell us. Please send replies to the mailing list.

And if you can, please also tell us which of your websites are powered by REE and how much traffic they get.

Thank you.

Roger Pack just told me that my blog had been compromised. A popup will open up in Internet Explorer. I just get rid of that. Thanks for the heads up Roger.

My apologies to those who saw the popup. It seemed to be some kind of XSS vulnerability in WordPress. Sigh, I guess I’ll have to upgrade WordPress again.