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Easy and robust deployment of Ruby and Ruby on Rails™ applications on Apache web servers

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For Apache web servers (Linux, BSD, OS X)

Introducing Phusion Passenger™

Phusion Passenger™ — a.k.a. mod_rails or mod_rack — makes deployment of Ruby web applications, such as those built on the revolutionary Ruby on Rails web framework, a breeze. It follows the usual Ruby on Rails conventions, such as “Don’t-Repeat-Yourself”.
  • Deployment is only a matter of uploading application files. No Ruby (on Rails)-specific server configuration required!
  • Built on the industry standard Apache web server.
  • Allows Ruby on Rails applications to use about 33% less memory, when used in combination with Ruby Enterprise Edition (optional).
  • Zero maintenance. No port management, server process monitoring or stale file cleanup required. Errors are automatically recovered whenever possible.
  • Designed for performance, stability and security. Phusion Passenger should never crash Apache even in case of crashing Rails applications.
  • Well-documented, for both system administrators and developers!

See it in action

Screencast

This screencast (H.264, 19 MB, almost 3 minutes) of Phusion Passenger covers installation, deployment and a bit of elaboration as well. Many thanks to Ryan Bates from Railscasts for creating this screencast.

Various people have submitted a voice sample for use in our screencast. Even though they didn't make it in the final screencast, we'd like to thank them as well. They are, alphabetically sorted:

  • Kyle Daigle
  • Sam Figueroa
  • Luke Hartman
  • Joshua Wehner

Thanks all! If there's anyone we forgot to mention, please contact us.