mod_rails

Dreamhost announced today that they’re supporting Passenger (mod_rails) in their Apache installation. Passenger is an old idea (embedding an interpreter and libraries in Apache) applied to the very specific Ruby on Rails scenario. Passenger is touted as a plug-and-play, point Apache at your Rails public directory one step web application deployment solution. I have to imagine, given Dreamhosts adoption of the technology, that Passenger works more or less as advertised. I’m also certain that this will make deploying Rails applications at Dreamhost much easier. Read more