Goodbye (notso)fastcgi, Hello Mongrel
I’ve just started using Mongrel instead of fastcgi for my Rails apps. Its only been a few days but I’m already loving the difference. Its so much faster than before. It wasn’t hard setting up either. Now Apache just proxies requests to Mongrel. I used this article titled Using Mongrel Cluster to set most of it up. I added a few minor customizations for my situation but nothing you can’t figure out from reading the article.

February 9th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
The following two posts also helped:
http://blog.codahale.com/2006/06/19/time-for-a-grown-up-server-rails-mongrel-apache-capistrano-and-you/
http://blog.innerewut.de/articles/2006/04/21/scaling-rails-with-apache-2-2-mod_proxy_balancer-and-mongrel