Deploying rails applications using nginx

Over the weekend I moved some of my rails applications to yet another rails deployment option (See my previous posts on deploying rails with apache, mongrel and mod_proxy_balancer or pound, lighttptd and mongrel).

I replaced apache with nginx, a small fast webserver with good proxying and rewriting capabilities. Nginx is extremely fast, a lot easier to configure than apache and uses much less memory. The process was remarkably painless.  read more »

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