> You could possibly directly wire lighttpd to Rails then, what with the New! 
> Shiny! SCGI runner around IIRC.

That's how we've been running for the past few months (thanks Zed!), and 
it works well. Mongrel's a step forward though, cause it makes it easier 
to verify that a specific process is working properly since you can hit 
it directly with a browser, something you can't do with an scgi process.