Who’s using Ruby Enterprise Edition in production?
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.
taelor said,
November 16, 2008 @ 9:03 pm
I have a proof of concept website called http://shovelchat.com. With a cron-job scheduled polling of the Digg.com API, I list all the Digg sites. Then you can click on one of those listing, and be brought to a chat room based on that digg article.
The Chat room uses Juggernaut, a push server for rails. Juggernaut uses a TCP/IP flash bridge to push javascript up to the browser. Juggernaut is a seperate process in the background.
The website is ran using Phusion Passenger. The whole set up has been running for at least 76 days straight, no problems. But I don’t get any traffic, so that might be why.
But since I use Passenger, you have to wait a while for the website to load. I haven’t figured out how to fix that quite yet. I know there is a setting in the config that can take care of that.
Thanks for the great products, I makes things very simple, and I love the benifits I get by running Phusion Passenger with Ruby Enterprise Edition. I’m sure slicehost.com loves it too.
Keep up the great work,
taelor
jasoj said,
November 17, 2008 @ 1:44 am
taelor: “But since I use Passenger, you have to wait a while for the website to load” …. why so? I’m not familiar with that issue yet.
taelor said,
November 17, 2008 @ 3:55 pm
*from what I understand, which is not enough and possible incorrect…*
To save on memory consumption, passenger does not have a rails instance running at all times. Instead passenger only loads the Rails stack when a call is made, and that is kept alive for about a minute or so. Therefore, If no one has been to your site in a few minutes, you have to wait for the Rails stack to load, which can take a few seconds.
…[insert obligatory rails vs merb LOC comment here]
I was hoping to get a reply explaining this exact thing from the owner of this blog [nudge, nudge]
Hongli said,
November 17, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
taelor, what you said is correct. But you’ve already said it, so in the spirit of Don’t Repeat Yourself I won’t repeat it.
oldmoe said,
November 18, 2008 @ 9:34 pm
We use REE for almost all of our production sites @ eSpace . Some generate millions of daily hits. I was hoping you can port the changes to 1.9 as well since the core team’s schedule on that issue is not clear.
Arlen said,
November 19, 2008 @ 8:36 pm
On all production sites.