railsmonk - Why Phusion Passenger better than Mongrel for development?

Hey, I'm Dima Sabanin and I love programming and I've been doing this since I was 10 years old. For the last 3 years I work with Rails.

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Why Phusion Passenger better than Mongrel for development?

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).