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Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20090113 has been released. This version is sponsored by a number of people and organizations. Please read this page for the announcement.

One of the goals of the second Ruby Enterprise Edition sponsorship campaign is to have better documentation. I’m almost done with the documentation, and a preview is a available here.

Some REE features involve setting environment variables. Setting environment variables in the shell by calling ‘export FOO=bar’ has no permanent effect. Setting the environment variables in bashrc/profile is permanent, but doesn’t always work; for example Apache (and other processes which are typically started by the system init process) ignores bashrc/profile. There’s /etc/environment, but this seems to be Linux-specific, perhaps even Debian-specific.

Does anybody know a cross-platform method to permanently set environment variables for all processes? If no such method exists, how would one permanently set environment variables in FreeBSD, OS X and Solaris?

It has been a day since we’ve launched DebGem, our RubyGems-to-Apt conversion service. Today we’ve added support for gems with native extensions for x86 Debian 4.0 (Etch). See the full announcement.

There has been a lot of noise about RubyGems-vs-Apt lately. We’ve just launched DebGem, a RuyGem-to-Apt conversion service. Now Debian/Ubuntu users will be able to manage all their favorite Ruby software through a single package manager!

Please refer to our announcement or the DebGem website for more information.

Hi readers, happy 2009!

The last Ruby Enterprise Edition sponsorship campaign was a huge success, and as a result many improvements have been introduced into REE.

We’ve just launched a second sponsorship campaign with the goal of adding more improvements into REE. This time, the campaign is public so everybody can join. Please read about it here.

Thank you for your support!

This is a minor bugfix release. Please read the Phusion blog for the announcement.

Ruby Enterprise Edition (REE) is a branch of the official Ruby interpreter which is capable of reducing your Rails applications’ memory usage by 33% on average, as well as improving your applications’ performance. This is possible because REE includes copy-on-write enhancements for the garbage collector, as well as an improved memory allocator (tcmalloc). REE has been out for several months now and is already used by many high-profile websites and organizations, such as New York Times, Shopify and 37signals.

“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.” – Tobias Lütke (Shopify)

And just like Phusion Passenger, Ruby Enterprise Edition is 100% open source.

Recent developments

REE has just become better. We had been talking with DHH from 37signals about a possible sponsorship campaign for supporting REE development. The campaign has recently ended, and so we’re presenting the world with Ruby Enterprise Edition version 1.8.6-20081205.

Please read http://blog.phusion.nl/2008/12/05/ruby-enterprise-edition-186-20081205-released-thank-you-sponsors/ for the full announcement.

Phusion Passenger is an Apache module for deploying Ruby on Rails web applications, and is mainly focused on ease of use and stability. Since its first release in April 2008, it has gained quite a lot of attention from the Rails community, and nowadays it has become a very popular deployment tool.

We have recently been mentioned on live.37signals.com where David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, has given his praise to Phusion Passenger. Not too long ago, 37signals switched Ta-da List to Phusion Passenger, and are now in the progress of switching more websites.
live.37signals.com isn’t broadcasting right now, but you can find recordings at justin.tv.

Recent changes

Phusion Passenger is under constant maintenance and development. We are pleased to announce Phusion Passenger version 2.0.5. This is mainly a bugfix release. Please read http://blog.phusion.nl/2008/12/05/phusion-passenger-205-released-mentioned-on-live37signalscom/ for the full announcement.

Final

Phusion Passenger is provided to the community for free. If you like Phusion Passenger, please consider sending us a donation. Thanks!

Hongli Lai

Ninh Bui

Phusion Passenger is an Apache module for deploying Ruby on Rails web applications, and is mainly focused on ease of use and stability. Since its first release in April 2008, it has gained quite a lot of attention from the Rails community, and nowadays it has become a very popular deployment tool.

Tobias Lütke has recently announced that Shopify is now running Phusion Passenger:

“In conclusion: I cannot see any reason to choose a different deployment strategy at this point. Its simple, complete, fast and well documented.” —
Tobias Lütke

Even 37signals is now using Phusion Passenger. They’ve recently announced that they’ve switched Ta-da List to Phusion Passenger:

“We’re really impressed with the ease of deployment and stability under Passenger. The app now requires less than 10 lines of configuration to launch and deploy.” — Joshua Sierles

Recent changes

Phusion Passenger is under constant maintenance and development. We are pleased to announce Phusion Passenger version 2.0.4. This is mainly a bugfix release, but contains one new feature. Please read http://blog.phusion.nl/2008/12/01/phusion-passenger-204-released-37signalss-ta-da-list-now-using-passenger/ for the full announcement.

Final

Phusion Passenger is provided to the community for free. If you like Phusion Passenger, please consider sending us a donation. Thanks!

Hongli Lai

Ninh Bui

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.