Ruby deployment has gotten at least an order of magnitude less painful in recent years, particularly with Passenger (http://www.modrails.com/ http://www.modrail

Ruby deployment has gotten at least an order of magnitude less painful in recent years, particularly with Passenger (http://www.modrails.com/ http://www.modrails.com/). On a couple servers I run the average memory footprint of a Rails app on Passenger (per instance) is 50-60MB.