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What is Passenger exactly? Never heard of it before now. A quick Google brings up a marketing page that doesn't explain much more.
by darwinwhy 6y ago
What is Passenger exactly? Never heard of it before now. A quick Google brings up a marketing page that doesn't explain much more.
- johnmcauley 6y agoIt’s a Ruby web server that can we bed used with nginx or Apache.
- universa1 6y agoSomething like mod_perl / mod_xxx in the early days... and they did some work on the concurrency problems with rails and ruby around the ruby 1.8 days iirc... In the meantime they expanded to more languages...
- ForHackernews 6y agoIt's an application server. If you're familiar with the Python webdev ecosystem, Passenger is roughly a Ruby equivalent for something like uWSGI or Gunicorn. (IIRC, you can actually run Python apps with Passenger now, too)
- coldtea 6y agoWhere now = for 5 years or more.
- e12e 6y agoNot sure if you mean this page or not: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/ https://www.phusionpassenger.com/ But as they say, it's an application server. Similar to mod_perl for apache/php, unicorn or indeed nodejs (which can function as an application server for Javascript).