Why would I want to use unicorn or thin instead of WEBrick for development purposes?

Question

I\'ve recently found that some people prefer using unicorn_rails instead of the default WEBrick as a web server for developing Rails applications.

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Answer 1

In addition to the other answers giving a pretty good overview already, there is also a technical reason you might want to consider using unicorn over WEBrick:

WEBrick does not support subdomains. Support for HTTPS is rather hacky to implement.

So if you have an SaaS application using subdomains, or if you simply want to have admin/api/... subdomain, then WEBrick is not an option. There is POW for Mac OS X, but this won't work for Linux developers.