No True "mod_ruby" Is Damaging Ruby's Viability On The Web

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Harryli on 2008-01-21 - Tags quickd
Ratbeard on 2008-01-18 - Tags rails , ruby , web

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on 2008-01-18 by ratbeard

Great comments about how to deploy rails applications. The shared hosting situation sounds pretty grim :/

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he reason is that applications built around these frameworks tend to expose themselves directly via HTTP daemons, using libraries such as Mongrel or WEBrick, and then requests from Web servers like Apache need to be proxied through to them, but this feels like a hackish workaround to the fact we lack a proper "mod_ruby."

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) Is there / why isn't there a version of mod_ruby that doesn't have the "class sharing" issue? What is the technical impediment?

2) Is there any immutable reason that Ruby apps couldn't, in the future, be deployed in a PHP-esque fashion?