Rails: is Passenger Standalone suitable for production deployment?

Question

The question title pretty much sums it up... I haven\'t been able to find any good resources that outline the pros / cons of using Phusion Passenger Standalone for Rails App Dep

Answer 1

The Passenger standalone is pretty much a Passenger with Nginx compiled in. One of the pros is, that you now can use a different Ruby version with each Passenger and proxy the traffic through one Apache or Nginx or use it, well, standalone. I don't know if there is a difference performance-wise. I suppose using multiple standalone Passengers instead of one Nginx with a Passenger module increases the memory usage.