You could deploy it as a sibling process rather than a child. I would never deploy Passenger Lite really by itself -- I'd use god (like monit, but in Ruby) to

You could deploy it as a sibling process rather than a child. I would never deploy Passenger Lite really by itself -- I'd use god (like monit, but in Ruby) to run it, even if it's just one process. So making that two processes, one non-ruby, is easy.