Ruby on Rails Officially Supported by DreamHost

One of my concerns around developing sites in Ruby on Rails has been the lack of hosting companies that support the technology. Textdrive has been the official hosting company of Rails and a few others have been offering limite support.

Dreamhost has provided limited support by allowing Rails to run as a CGI process. The problem with Rails on a regular CGI process, is that it is very slow, due in large part to the fact that the CGI engine must be stopped and started for each request. The recommended solution is to run Rails on FastCGI. FastCGI is a method of making cgi scripts faster by allowing them to remain running between web requests.

Here are some specific links that explain Dreamhost and Ruby on Rails:

• Ruby on Rails – DreamHost
• Dreamhost KB Article on FastCGI

There is also a nice script which installs currrent versions of ruby and rails locally in your home directory

If you just want to poke around with Ruby on Rails, you can signup now and enter the promotion code dmm to recieve a $60 discount off your first year of hosting.

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