Comments on: Who’s using Ruby Enterprise Edition in production?

By: Arlen

Arlen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:36:52 +0000

On all production sites.

By: oldmoe

oldmoe — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:34:05 +0000

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.

By: Hongli

Hongli — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:25:47 +0000

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.

By: taelor

taelor — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:55:12 +0000

*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]

By: jasoj

jasoj — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:44:54 +0000

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.

By: taelor

taelor — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:03:57 +0000

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