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We had the need to hook up a simple ruby web process (non-rails) to our production apache server. As Leslie Hensley pointed out, fcgi and scgi are on the way out, and mongrel + mod_proxy_balancer is the new way to go. We use mongrel extensively in our rails deploys, but always just used WEBrick to do simple serving. To make a long story short, we had to ask ourselves….is mongrel that much better (and in this case better == faster) than WEBrick?

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