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Raptor: a radically new Ruby web server

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At this stage, irrespective of how well intentioned the project is, this is vapor ware. Please don't treat software releases like some Justin Beiber concert with hype and and a countdown.

Is there a solid explanation about what exactly is different and how it's better?

Not yet as far as I can find. I saw Laurent Sansonetti (of RubyMotion fame) tweet about it, but whether he’s had a play or not I don’t know. Fabio Akita’s apparently run some benchmarks against the beta ( http://www.akitaonrails.com/2014/10/19/the-new-kid-on-the-bl... ) but seems almost too excited so maybe take that recommendation with a pinch of salt.

Looking at the single review they link to on the site[1], it looks like the major speedup is due to internal response caching, high concurrency comes from non-thread-bound connection pooling, and there are a few other niceties relating to Nginx integration.

[1] http://www.akitaonrails.com/2014/10/19/the-new-kid-on-the-bl...

At the moment (for the next 36 days?) we can't evaluate it on anything but the name and a bar chart.

Sweet bar chart.

That gradient, though.

Here's a relevant Twitter conversation on Raptor from last night:

https://twitter.com/brixen/status/523988304627499008

Interesting tidbit is that the DNS may show that Raptor is being developed by Phusion.

Passenger is conspicuously absent from the comparison graph as well.

hah, I was about to give everybody crap for being ultra-negative when they have a link to their github repo...but that "fork me on github" takes you to some other page asking for an email address or something. That is pretty bad. That bar chart looks great though. :)

Are these related? https://github.com/garybernhardt/raptor

In that the new Raptor team has 36 days to convince Gary Bernhardt to yank his 'raptor' gem, yes.

Clearly they will call their gem rubyraptor.

Does anyone else find it strange that there was no benchmark comparison with Rails?

No, Rails isn't a web server, its a web framework.

All these are servers that you'd use to run apps built on Rails or other frameworks, not alternatives to Rails.

Of course, Torquebox is a lot more than a web server, so it may be odd that it is included in the comparison. Once we know more about "Raptor", we can discuss the appropriateness of the comparison more intelligently.

There is a benchmark comparison with Rails. See http://www.akitaonrails.com/2014/10/19/the-new-kid-on-the-bl...

Rails isn't a web server.

Rails is not a web server, you can plug a discrete web server into rails. By default I think it uses WEBrick, but you can also tell it to use e.g. nginx and presumably in the near future raptor.

Fair enough. In my caffeine-deprived state, I was somehow under the impression that Rails was a server instead of a framework.

Time for some more coffee...

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