Sorry it took so long to reply to your issue in the tracker - I just realized today that it is not set up to email me new bugs!

Anyway, I have fixed the incompatibility with Rails 2.2, while still being backwards compatible with Rails 2.0 and 2.1. You can get the new code from the GitHub repository:

http://github.com/look/xss_terminate/tree/master

Thank your for your reply. I will probably give mod_rails a try. However we will still keep Nginx as we heavily rely on it for streaming protected video content.

Best wishes,

Happy new year to you!

We actually switched to mod_rails about a month ago. I’m happy with it for the reasons that Tobias describes here: http://blog.leetsoft.com/2008/11/15/passenger

However, there are a couple difficulties:

First - it crashes from time to time. I don’t know why. http://code.google.com/p/phusion-passenger/issues/detail?id=174&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Stars%20Summary

This isn’t as big a problem as it would be for many people because I am running 6 passenger+Apaches and still using HAProxy. If one crashes, we get an email alert (thanks to Nagios), the site is not affected (because HAProxy starts ignoring it) and I restart it when I have a chance.

The second issue is that I had to create a more complicated Capistrano deploy script to deploy applications. This is because we were having lots of problems when deploying while Passenger is running so I had to set up Capistrano to remove each server from the load balancing, stop Apache, deploy the application, and restart. At least one other person confirmed this problem:

http://groups.google.com/group/phusion-passenger/browse_thread/thread/954171096e17c6f5/95ecc5b5cd6fb843?lnk=gst&q=restart#95ecc5b5cd6 fb843

Now that I have something that works, this is no trouble at all. If the random crashing was fixed that I’d be very happy with this setup.

I managed to create the initializer so that xss_terminate can correctly load in production mode.

Have you tried mod_rails VS Nginx+HAProxy+Thin?

On our VoD website, we use Nginx+Thin only.

I will follow your blog closely.

Best regards and happy new year

I interested in the resource requirements of Rails/RoR under traffic.

I remember you mentioned that you get a ton of calls to your ravelry API. Does Activerecord perform adequately since it has nothing like hibernate’s second level cache?

I am actually thinking of dabbling with Rails once again since JRuby has matured and Rails is thread safe.