问题
I've jus saw that mongrel's last updat was about one year ago...
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=diff&version=35
has it been disontinued?
is there any other lightweight alternative for a windows development box?
回答1:
Since mongrel hasnt been updated in such a long time there are certain features like --prefix which no longer work with the most reason version of rails (2.3+)
I would recommend using thin server instead as it seems to be the natural evolution of mongrel and the project maintainers are actively developing it.
回答2:
Mongrel works fine in production for Windows and other OS. It's not being developed b/c it works fine for the majority of cases. There is still conversation periodically on the mongrel-users listserv about fixing this corner-case or that one. But my experience with mongrel is that it works great.
I tested thin a while back also and it works fine also. I did uncover a caching bug, but the maintainer posted a fix quickly, which was nice. I think if you found a bug in Mongrel, the current maintainers would also fix it quickly.
I did a comparison of thin vs mongrel here:
http://www.misuse.org/science/2008/04/07/thin-vs-mongrel-a-ruby-on-rails-performance-shootout/
And also another one looking at various pipelining techniques (nginx fair proxy module vs unix sockets). Thin does seem to exhibit some weird clustering behavior under heavy load - but that could be fixed by now.
http://www.misuse.org/science/2008/04/07/thin-ruby-on-rails-nginx-fair-proxy-performance-testing/
回答3:
The original author Zed Shaw no longer maintains it, but it is still suitable for deploying rails applications on a workstation as an alternative to webrick (the Rails default).
If you're not using Windows as a production environment, I'd suggest setting up a VM configured w/ your production server's rails engine.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/869305/what-happened-to-mongrel-any-alternatives-on-windows