On Tuesday 08 November 2005 4:04 pm, snacktime wrote:

> such as fastcgi or scgi. Webrick is way too unstable. Application bugs can
> cause webrick to just die quite often, and what good is a webserver that
> absolutely requires no bugs in your application before it will run without
> crashing?

I think webrick is being unfairly maligned here.  I use webrick all the time 
when developing applications, and it is both adequately fast and completely 
stable.

I can throw 10 million requests through it (I've done so in application 
testing before).  I can intentionally or accidentally cause every conceivable 
type of application error.  I can hit it with massive numbers of concurrent 
requests.  I have delivered standalone instances of sites and apps to 
customers, running just on webrick, that they have let random people play 
with at trade shows.  It has never crashed on me.  Ever.

If it crashes with Rails, that is a Rails problem, not a webrick problem.


Kirk Haines