Hey, I'm Dima Sabanin and I love programming.
I work on Beanstalk for Wildbit.
It starts new processors for new requests automatically, and kills them after they are not needed. So if you have a big site running locally, and you don’t want to setup mongrel cluster and load balancer, my advice is to go with Passenger. It’s really a piece of cake to setup if you have apache installed (and you do, if you’re on Mac or Linux).