[Rails] Re: Frustrated with RoR environment splintering

[Tom Mornini]

On Mar 31, 2006, at 3:27 PM, Seth Brundle wrote:

>> You're right, but... FastCGI is not Rails.  fcgi and SCGI are not  
>> Rails.
>> The advantage to having all this flexibility is that if the  
>> maintainer
>> of one of those disappears for two years, you still have Rails and a
>> variety of other platforms to run it on.
>>
>> If Rails settled on FCGI and FCGI's maintainers all gave up, where  
>> would
>> we be then?
>
> Thats exactly my point - when I chose mod_perl it was not risky  
> because both
> the Apache Foundation and the Perl community were strongly behind  
> it. It wasnt
> 'going away'.
>
> That isnt clear with any of the current Apache implementation  
> persistance
> solutions for RoR.

I don't think that's a fair statement.

mod_fcgi isn't about to "go away", in fact, it's currently making a  
comeback!

http://tinyurl.com/fgcfq

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-- Tom Mornini