I found the main benefit of Passenger in a single-app setting is (much) easier initial setup. Give it a try next time you set up a server. It'll save you about

I found the main benefit of Passenger in a single-app setting is (much) easier initial setup. Give it a try next time you set up a server. It'll save you about 30 minutes to an hour of screwing around with mongrel cluster configs and nginx proxying.