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What is "RailsFCGIHandler" doing?


What is "RailsFCGIHandler" doing? It has a process! method, seems starts a Rails Application, if so, what's the difference between rails server command?


Solution

  • RailsFCGIHandler is the glue between a webserver speaking the fastcgi protocol and a rails application.

    Once upon a time, this was a popular way of hosting rails application with apache or lighttpd.